stevertigo wrote
"David Gerard" wrote
arXiv.org is reputed to perform a useful role. How's it look from your view as an academic mathematician?
charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote: Experts writing for experts. Even within the field this stuff is hardly readable.
There are a few [[Open access]] repositories out there. But is it really the case that "this stuff is hardly readable" or is it the case that this stuff isnt linkable and therefore hard to corroborate with other current research, as well as authoritative references (like Wikipedia)?
See a page such as [[K-theory (physics)]] to get the flavour.
Note that it is not the failure to wikify and provide sources that makes this (I imagine) inaccessible to 99.9% of readers.
Charles
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On 9/1/06, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
stevertigo wrote
"David Gerard" wrote
arXiv.org is reputed to perform a useful role. How's it look from your view as an academic mathematician?
charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote: Experts writing for experts. Even within the field this stuff is hardly readable.
There are a few [[Open access]] repositories out there. But is it really the case that "this stuff is hardly readable" or is it the case that this stuff isnt linkable and therefore hard to corroborate with other current research, as well as authoritative references (like Wikipedia)?
See a page such as [[K-theory (physics)]] to get the flavour.
Note that it is not the failure to wikify and provide sources that makes this (I imagine) inaccessible to 99.9% of readers.
Charles
Ow. My brain.
Incidentally, does anyone think that that article and [[K-theory]] proper should be merged?
~maru
--- charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
See a page such as [[K-theory (physics)]] to get the flavour.
Note that it is not the failure to wikify and provide sources that makes this (I imagine) inaccessible to 99.9% of readers.
But its inaccessibility didnt stop me from starting on wikifying it. The value of its wikification I can only guess is a variable, depending on 1) its usefulness for experts as a summary, and 2) its usefulness to learners such that learners can fill in the gaps.
Its like Ronald Reagan said after using the john: "everything will just trickle on down."
-sv
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