# Musings on A New Interface for Mathematics

DevFeed: [Musings on A New Interface for Mathematics](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/musings-on-a-new-interface-for-mathematics-40433.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.jeremykun.com/2020/05/17/musings-on-a-new-interface-for-mathematics/>)

Published: 2020-05-17T12:11:22Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Jeremy Kun](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jeremy-kun.md>)

Topics: [Mathematics](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mathematics.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/interface.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [interface](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interface.md>), [mathematics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mathematics.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>)

## AI overview

This essay argues that mathematics should evolve beyond traditional paper-and-chalkboard notation and develop new interfaces that bring mathematical ideas and software closer together. Drawing on Bret Victor's ideas, it emphasizes immediate feedback and tools that expand human creativity and understanding.

## Source excerpt

This essay is a slightly modified version of the closing chapter of A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics. We are no longer constrained by pencil and paper. The symbolic shuffle should no longer be taken for granted as the fundamental mechanism for understanding quantity and change. Math needs a new interface. -Bret Victor, "Kill Math" Math is a human activity. It's messy and beautiful, complicated and elegant, useful and bull-headedly frustrating. But in reading this book, A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics, my dream is that you have found the attitude, confidence, and enough prerequisite knowledge to continue to engage with mathematics beyond these pages.