alt Hacker NewsMy entire being is anthithetical to this type of gatekeeping.
> You expect the players of the game to learn the rules before they play.
TFA is literally from a 'player' who has 'learned the rules' complaining that the papers remain indecipherable.
> You expect the players of the game to learn the rules before they play.
Actually, I expect to have to teach rules to new players before they play. We are different.
The article does not complain about notation. It describes how the different fields of mathematics are so deep and so abstract that it’s hard to understand them as a professional mathematician in a different field. That’s a hard problem worthy of discussion, but as the article says, it’s not as much a problem of notation or of explanations, rather than it’s just intrinsically difficult and complex because these are abstract and deep fields.
It’s not gatekeeping. It’s just hard.