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You seem to be arguing against a strawman. What math communities are closed communities of insiders? While it's true that many parts of math are fairly inaccess
by lambda 11y ago
You seem to be arguing against a strawman. What math communities are closed communities of insiders? While it's true that many parts of math are fairly inaccessible to the beginner, that is more due to them relying on foundations built up on huge amounts of detail that you need to internalize before they all make sense, rather than any kind of "arcane handshakes" or "dismissive" attitudes.
Where are you getting that the math establishment is some kind of "frightened fascist state"? I have no idea what you're talking about here.
It's definitely neat that someone with no formal training outside of high school was able to come up with novel solutions to this problem. But I don't see the "fascist" community that you are arguing against trying to exclude anyone.