Just saw Gowers yesterday in the first row of a conference talk given by Peter Scholze about perfectoid spaces. I left after 10 minutes as I was lost after 5 mi

Just saw Gowers yesterday in the first row of a conference talk given by Peter Scholze about perfectoid spaces. I left after 10 minutes as I was lost after 5 minutes :-) In my opinion conference talks are just not the right way to spread mathematical knowledge, except if you are deep into the subject matter. That can be seen because after the talk, there is usually just 1 question (maybe 2 questions), out of politeness. Blog articles like this have a much bigger impact!