| ▲ | anigbrowl 2 hours ago | |
Just tell the (AI) authors to go back and write clear explanations for why they matter and what the specific claim is. I gotta say I think mathematicians brought this roblem on themselves, most math papers are absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who is not an expert in the field. Mathematicians spend so much effort trying to make their argument to other mathematicians that they've gradually abandoned making their field or findings comprehensible to anyone else and left that to science journalists. In turn, those journalists churn out very formulaic stories written to a template: 50% the human story of the mathematicians social/academic wanderings in pursuit of their goal, 50% an explainer with some nice graphics on the subfield they operate in and a mention of what sort of problem their insight solves, perhaps with a few colorful metaphors thrown in. The last mathematical paper I can think of (but I'm not an expert, I'm sure there are some others) that was both mathematically rigorous and accessible enough to be readable was Mitchell Feigenbaum's Quantitative Universality for a Class of Nonlinear Transformations. This is accessible int he same way as a textbook - you have to work at it, but hte author is explaining his thought process and drawing the reader's attention toward things that matter or stand out as unusual. | ||