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I've had this problem with Wikipedia also when looking up various scientific or mathematical references I find here. Most do not have a laymen's explanation at
by Osiris 11y ago
I've had this problem with Wikipedia also when looking up various scientific or mathematical references I find here. Most do not have a laymen's explanation at the top of the article, requiring me to lookup other unknown terms referenced in the summary.
I really wish more articles had a summary for laymen with a more detailed explanation below.
- Someone 11y agoSome scientific terms are too deep to directly describe them in layman's terms in a reasonable number of words. Also, what one reader calls a layman's explanation another calls gobbledygook. That's one of the reasons for inventing hypertext. For example, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemannian_manifold https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemannian_manifold has a nice introduction paragraph, but it presupposes quite a bit of knowledge. If you want to know more, feel free to click some links to learn more. And yes, things probably aren't presented in a way that is optimal for _your_ learning, but there is no way to do that for every reader.