Comment by bsenftner
4 hours ago
The future of "math" is not just solving, but communicating what was solved, and why that solving is important. "Math" as a discipline is only ever been half created, they abandoned explaining themselves like it was beneath them. Well, now in "Math 1.0 finally whole" they will be explaining what they did to the rest of us. If you can't explain you are not really there.
That's what math has always been about, even if not everyone is necessarily as talented a communicator as someone like Thurston -- who was himself an exponent of computational tools in math research:
>I think of mathematics as having a large component of psychology, because of its strong dependence on human minds. Dehumanized mathematics would be more like computer code, which is very different. Mathematical ideas, even simple ideas, are often hard to transplant from mind to mind....Translation in the direction conceptual -> concrete and symbolic is much easier than translation in the reverse direction, and symbolic forms often replaces the conceptual forms of understanding....
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematici...
This is an entitled take. The usefulness of a thing has nothing to do with how easily communicable it is. That is the whole premise of specialization and becoming an expert. People go in-depth on things so they can say “trust me on this” and so you don’t have to. You are advocating for a tyranny of the illiterate.
Also, this reads like you didn’t like math classes. That sucks, but it’s no basis for societal organization
I am advocating for effective communications, it is not as if knowledge once understood remains difficult. To communicate and convey understanding is good, and to withhold understanding is tyranny.
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