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I would like to see more accessible exposition of modern mathematics to the interested public. There seem to be two opposing forces - assuming more prerequisit
by jrp 17y ago
I would like to see more accessible exposition of modern mathematics to the interested public. There seem to be two opposing forces - assuming more prerequisites lets you talk more easily and go into more depth, but cuts your target market very quickly. Is this an inevitable dilemma?
- gchpaco 17y agoThe problem is the devil is invariably in the details. It is almost impossible to say something useful about category theory starting from even a modern undergraduate mathematics education in less than about a week, because you need to talk about definitions and utility lemmas before that (and category theory is so abstract it's hard to develop an intuition for it). A lot of stuff like topology is more approachable but it's a lot like popularizing the climate research, although less politically loaded; the real theory is much more nuanced than any simple description could be.