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Re:The pitfalls of jargon and the damage it does to mathematics by btilly on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @11:53AM (#2580320)
As long as mathematicians are dependent upon finding a small clique to work with, there are no pressures to make themselves understood by more than a small number of people who have a lot of common knowledge. Thus jargon will proliferate.

See http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-i-left-math.html for more.

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