Of course it wasn't written for people to understand -- it was written for their colleagues in their field, and all they care about are these pages unreadable m

Of course it wasn't written for people to understand -- it was written for their colleagues in their field, and all they care about are these pages unreadable mathematical expressions. It's not rare that I talk with an author of a scientific paper and can easily summarize an entire paragraph with a couple of simple sentences.. And when I talk about math with my friends over a lunch, much, much more information can be conveyed than by spending the same amount of time on reading papers. However, it does not prove that papers are written in unintelligible way, only that human-to-human communication is much more effective than paper-to-human.