"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)?
Ive always thought that reading PDFs would be exponentially easier if we could select> right-click>>google text just as we can in Firefox. (Somebody tell Ghostview and Adobe).
But even then the synergetics are as limited as the fields are specialised. Therefore there is a need for areas to be somewhat inacessible to disruption. Perhaps as it should be for ideas which Grandma doesnt want to hear another word about, and Bubba just plain dont like (or understand).
~sv~
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