Collection of quotes on interesting notations and how they affect thought

I especially like that Chiang's "Story of your Life" is included there. I found both the story and the movie personally significant, and the dance notation that Edward Tufte included in either, Envisioning Information and Quantitative Display is very good. Other examples might include how Feynman diagrams changed how we thought about atoms, state diagrams how we thought about algorithms. Sequence diagrams are vastly underappreciated for their expressive power. Inspired by Chiang, I think tree graphs as taxonomies…

Very cool. I like this kind of stuff. One of the links there is about Dirac's notation. When I was doing Quantum Computing in school, professor started us with matrices and vectors. We were familiar with those and we could multiply them and do basic operations. Then one homework they assigned us a more complex quantum circuit to solve. And it was quite painful because matrices had gotten bigger. However there was a method to his madness, because after they…

Might be worth to point to Terry Tao‘s post on MathOverflow about notation, as it seems to be missing in this collection. https://mathoverflow.net/questions/366070/what-are-the-benef... It was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23911903

Honoured to be included.