[WikiEN-l] Does openness dull the bleeding edge?

[maru dubshinki]

On 9/1/06, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews at 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 at 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