Marko, On 7/26/2010 9:51 AM, Marko Rodriguez wrote: > Hello, > >> The slides would be clearer for me if each expression was paraphrased in >> English >> (e.g. i ∈ V - i is a member of the set V), and I think it'd help other graph >> theory newbies too. > Computer programming has a direct mapping to mathematical notation. For > example: > >> i ∈ V > is equivalent to: > > % set up > V = new HashSet(); > V.add(i); > % equivalence > assertTrue(V.contains(i)) > > What I could do is write a short article entitled, something along the lines > of, "The Symbols, Syntax, and Semantics of Mathematics and Computation." At > which point, I can establish the mapping between mathematical notation and > programming statements. > > Thoughts?,
I think that would be immensely helpful to a number of people. BTW, your slides on graph traversals rock! By way of explanation, I chair the topic maps group in ISO and graph like thinking helps a lot with topic maps. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick > Marko. > > http://markorodriguez.com > > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user -- Patrick Durusau [email protected] Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
