A good way to make something readable to the general public would be to not even write it in math. (But then again, that's not a very useful statement when we n

A good way to make something readable to the general public would be to not even write it in math. (But then again, that's not a very useful statement when we need things written out in math.) Snarkiness aside, I do agree that a good number of mathematicians don't know how to write, but that does not mean that mathematical writing is intrinsically bad. We don't judge a random programming language as "bad," just because a random member of the public isn't able to parse it (since a random member of the public likely has not learned any programming, much less that language's syntax), so why would we apply similar statements to math in the same way?