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What makes you think math papers wouldn’t benefit from having interactive bits in the middle? Obviously isn’t relevant for all math papers, but often would be e
by jacobolus 9y ago
What makes you think math papers wouldn’t benefit from having interactive bits in the middle? Obviously isn’t relevant for all math papers, but often would be extremely helpful. I read a lot of technical papers, and it is quite frequent that I will need to spend an hour or two decoding some formal mathematical statements whose basic idea/intuition could be more clearly conveyed pictorially in a few minutes.
Of course, making interactive diagrams often takes dramatically more work than sketching pictures with a pen (or just writing down equations), and mathematicians are not typically trained to do it, so it would be an uphill slog for many. But I would love it if there was more funding/prestige/etc. available for mathematicians to make their papers more accessible by adding better visuals.