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I wish the author had, as a PoC, taken one of the papers in his career as a maths PhD, and rewritten it so that a non-mathematician (say, one with only a CS or physics degree) can immediately understand it.

I don't say it's impossible, but it should make visible all the difficulties on the way.

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i wrote a few 'transl(iter)ation' from math/physics papers to be understandable by a CS degree, and yes, the jargon is in the way for a CS student. The biggest leap is to associate a greek letter with a definition. a CS student, in my experience, wants the letter (short variable name) to be a meaningful word (longer descriptive variable names). i am not a mathematician. physicists, in my experience, had no problem though.

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