Dear all,
As someone who does know quite a bit of maths (I did my PhD in theoretical physics) I must admit I find this thread mystifying. Maths is a type of representation that can be powerful for some things, but not for others. Sometimes it can be used to express things in a very compressed way - I have a reprint of Newton's work and there are no mathematical expressions in there - the descriptions are verbal, which makes some of them much lengthier than their more modern mathematical versions. Depending on the field of design I would expect images, sketches, models to be more powerful and useful - and then again for other types of design there should be other tools.
But I might be missing the point...
/Charlotte
Charlotte Magnusson
Associate Professor
Certec, Division of Rehabilitation Engineering Research
Department of Design Sciences Lund University
Lund
Sweden
tel +46 46 222 4097
fax +46 46 222 4431
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