> It's unintuitive, uninformative, excessively complicated jargon which exists only to gatekeep and save paper. As a mathematician, notation exists because it'

> It's unintuitive, uninformative, excessively complicated jargon which exists only to gatekeep and save paper. As a mathematician, notation exists because it's easier to read things with good notation than without. I have some advanced mathematics books in my table and in most of the pages you'll find far more text than notation. Notation is usually explained when it starts being used, usually in the definition. For example, the problem with understanding the notation "Aut(L|k)" is not the notation, because if the author wrote "group of field automorphisms of L fixing k elementwise" I'd be equally lost if I don't understand those words. And once I understand those words, the notation makes it easier to read and understand things whenever the author is talking about that group, because your brain automatically identifies the concept associated with the notation instead of having to read the words and linking them with the concept.