It’s also, not. I wish Wikipedia editors and jurors were more sympathetic to the idea that the vast majority of Wikipedia’s audience doesn’t have have capacity to overcome the cognitive complexity of mathematical formalisms in many technical articles and would appreciate an english in instead as well. Simple english Wikipedia doesn’t have its share of technical articles if that’s where you’d rather the english went.
Mathsy people, to help you put yourself in our shoes, consider this Wiki article on logic. Imagine that foreign language but all the symbols are highly compressed in an area, like one side of a numerator, with all kinds of relations between them, representing different things. I simply don’t have the working memory to make any sense of it by the time I’ve looked up what a particular thing is and it’s relation to a few others.
While I love your analogy and agree that maths is simplifying
It’s also, not. I wish Wikipedia editors and jurors were more sympathetic to the idea that the vast majority of Wikipedia’s audience doesn’t have have capacity to overcome the cognitive complexity of mathematical formalisms in many technical articles and would appreciate an english in instead as well. Simple english Wikipedia doesn’t have its share of technical articles if that’s where you’d rather the english went.
Mathsy people, to help you put yourself in our shoes, consider this Wiki article on logic. Imagine that foreign language but all the symbols are highly compressed in an area, like one side of a numerator, with all kinds of relations between them, representing different things. I simply don’t have the working memory to make any sense of it by the time I’ve looked up what a particular thing is and it’s relation to a few others.