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foxglacier 4 days ago

It goes even further. Einstein also simplified the writing of tensor equations involving sums (big sigma sum) with Einstein notation by basically dropping the sigma because it's redundant so undefined indices automatically get summed over all their applicable values. It works with nested sums too to make them deceptively simple looking. Add to that the comma subscript for differentiation and you get formulas with just a couple of terms but huge piles of subscripts. I've seen equations in text books that have both subscripts and superscripts on both the left and right of a variable.