Everything about Index notation

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Index notationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: An Index of Lines and Shapes: Rethinking Music Notation Through Visual ApproachesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The ring indexThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: An extensible notation for spatiotemporal index queriesCited 23 times
5. Go sideways: Array (data type)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Array (data structure)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• An extensible notation for spatiotemporal index queries

  Vassilis J. Tsotras, Christian S. Jensen, Richard Thomas Snodgrass · 1998 · ACM SIGMOD Record · 23 citations

• GENERAL SOLUTION TO BATEMAN'S DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH DIRECT INDEX NOTATION

  R. Thibes, S.L. de Oliveira · 2014 · International Journal of Pure and Apllied Mathematics · 8 citations

• Software design for finite difference schemes based on index notation

  Krister Åhlander, Kurt Otto · 2006 · Future Generation Computer Systems · 4 citations

• Symbolic tensor calculus using index notation

  P. Castellví, X. Jaén, E. Llanta · 1995 · Computers in Physics · 2 citations

• A Notation Symbol Index for Chemical Compounds

  Herman Skolnik · 1971 · Journal of Chemical Documentation · 2 citations

• Notation and Index for Informative Congruence in Translation

  Brian Harris · 1975 · Meta: Journal des traducteurs · 2 citations

• Index-Based Notation for Random Variable and Probability Space

  Hiroki Shibata, Graduate School of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University 6-6 Asahigaoka, Hino, Tokyo 191-0065, Japan, Yasufumi Takama · 2019 · Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics · 2 citations

• A Chemical Fragment Notation Index

  Herman Skolnik · 1971 · Journal of Chemical Documentation · 1 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• An Index of Lines and Shapes: Rethinking Music Notation Through Visual Approaches

  Benoit Granier · 2026 · Leonardo · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The ring indexAustin M. Patterson · 1940

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