That's not how math statements work. You think mathematicians are minifying/uglifying their 'code' in the same way that one might use switch/case or ternary ex

That's not how math statements work. You think mathematicians are minifying/uglifying their 'code' in the same way that one might use switch/case or ternary expressions instead of if/else if/else statements: in the name of concision/premature optimisation. However, what the mathematical language is really doing is more akin to what jQuery is doing for JavaScript: it wraps low-level, complex and at times verbose mathematical statements into simpler representations. Minification !== abstraction/syntactic sugar.