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"This nesting of proper nouns helps to make higher math impenetrable not just to outsiders, but also to working mathematicians trying to read their way from one
by proto-n 6y ago
"This nesting of proper nouns helps to make higher math impenetrable not just to outsiders, but also to working mathematicians trying to read their way from one subfield into another."
As if the biggest and only hurdle to understanding and working with advanced math was learning names... by the time you understand the concept and it's importance to a degree that you can work with it, the name becomes second nature.