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Re:Visual Group Theory: What is a group? (2016) [video] by sorokod on Saturday February 10, 2018 @05:30AM (#16346728)
> So why do the algebraists keep on tormenting students with the abstract definition?

In my personal experience, the ability to extract the motivation and build up intuition is considered to be skill that the "students" have to develop for themselves and this is part of their learning process. Those that are not sufficiently successful will fail - and that is OK in such a system.

Re:Visual Group Theory: What is a group? (2016) [video] by posterboy on Saturday February 10, 2018 @06:40AM (#16346903)
> It was hard to write, therefore it should be hard to read and this OK because why don't you go and write the comments never mind that I can't read my own code a months later. Fire and forget!
Re:Visual Group Theory: What is a group? (2016) [video] by gowld on Saturday February 10, 2018 @11:24AM (#16347937)
You'd prefer that a century of professional mathematicians of the past never have had their careers, since their way of thinking doesn't pass your bar of complexity?
Re:Visual Group Theory: What is a group? (2016) [video] by sorokod on Saturday February 10, 2018 @11:30AM (#16347974)
Not my bar, personally I think this is a crap attitude but one that I experienced.
Re:Visual Group Theory: What is a group? (2016) [video] by posterboy on Saturday February 10, 2018 @11:50AM (#16348087)
It should be noted that group theory, as far as i can see, is a rather new development and a century is not much in the evolution of didactic.