Throwaway1311

Reading the foreward

> These de­finitions, which are not at all simple for the > beginner, came to be used in the wrong context. > Textbooks presented them before any explanation was > given of the theory and its applications, there­ > by complicating an understanding of things that > were intuitively clear.

hear hear!

This problem is like most of the Wikipedia pages that I come across on 'complex' topics of not just maths but anything remotely intersting technically. I just give up in the end. Life is too short to be bothered with some editor's 'dick measuring' competition about how clever they.