The amount of effort and space spent on features of primes and pi that are incredibly unimportant except to very specialized researchers is… a bit insane in a document like this. As the name suggests, antidifferentiation is the reverse process of differentiation. (Also, are the lists 'even primes: 2', and 'odd primes ' meant as jokes?)Įdit 2: Same goes with the obsession with pi. The antiderivative rules in calculus are basic rules that are used to find the antiderivatives of different combinations of functions. Granted, my PhD is in a very different part of math, but this seems a bit… crazy… in such a document. And if you don't understand what the concepts involved mean, then having memorized the symbol does you no good.Įdit, since I'm apparently in a very critical mood today: It seems very strange for a document to barely scratch the absolute essentials for something as important and broadly applicable as linear algebra, yet go on and on and on with quite esoteric lists of special primes that surely concern at most researchers in specialized parts of number theory? Of all the lists of primes that the author chooses to focus on, I must say I had only heard of three (Fibonacci, Mersenne and Gaussian). If you understand what the concepts involved in a symbol mean, you won't have a problem recognizing the commonly used symbols. I find people's obsession over memorizing mathematical symbols (part 2) really strange. Sorry if I sound exclusively negative about someone else's hard work – that is not the intention.
