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> Venkatesh argued that the record on this is terrible, lamenting that “for a typical paper or talk, very few of us understand it.”

> "few of us"

You see, if you plebs are unable to understand our genius its solely due to your inadequacies as a person and as an intellect, but if we are unable to understand our genius, well, that's a lamentable crisis.

To make Mathematics "understandable" simply requires the inclusion of numerical examples. A suggestion 'the mathematics community' is hostile to.

If you are unable to express numerically then I'd argue you are unable to understand.



A lot of math is not about numbers, so not everything can have a numerical example.




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