Re:The pitfalls of jargon and the damage it does to mathematics
by peterbotond on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @11:05AM
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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.
I don't say it's impossible, but it should make visible all the difficulties on the way.