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>In maths, papers are devoid of any links Not really. Math papers have citations; and important references to prior work are mentioned in the text. It would be
by gizmo686 9y ago
>In maths, papers are devoid of any links
Not really. Math papers have citations; and important references to prior work are mentioned in the text. It would be a nice quality of life improvement if these were as easy to follow as clicking a link, but relative to the amount of effort you will spend within each link, it is pretty close. Assuming that the referenced paper is in an accessible location; although if it isn't and I need to track it down, I would prefer a standard citation over a broken URL with no archive.
- klibertp 9y agoClickable links are but one of the "quality of life" improvements paper authors could provide - but don't. It's not like there are no tools (like nogbit suggests); for example, Jupyter Notebooks are a document format which can incorporate various kinds of content, from latex typesetting to interactive charts to executable code. The problem is that such tools are simply ignored by most of the paper authors. I do understand some of the reasons for this ((over)reliance on journals for instance), but that doesn't change the fact that it makes for much worse experience for the readers than it could be.