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> The issue is that at least for many scientists and mathematicians, mathematical abstraction and code abstraction are topics that oftentimes run orthogonal to each other.

Excellent observation. I'm an ex-physicist and on the few occasions that I had to use computers the only thing I cared about was how computer functions mapped into the mathematical abstractions that I cared about. Everything else was just noise.



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