> Perhaps it could be better put as 'Why doesn't maths concern itself with readability like programming does?' Readability is a personal opinion in some ways.

> Perhaps it could be better put as 'Why doesn't maths concern itself with readability like programming does?' Readability is a personal opinion in some ways. I guess I have grown up using mathematical symbols in Physics classes since middle school so those symbols didn't feel arcane to me when I hit my first real math classes.