How Mathematicians Talk
Two ways of describing the same relationship: the step-by-step chain versus the simpler, symmetric statement.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019-01-18-how-mathematicians-talk/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[How Mathematicians Talk] "He's my wife's cousin's husband."
[How They Should Talk] "Our wives are cousins."