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Recently I spent (wasted more like) an afternoon reading a long and densely mathematical paper on Euclidean Motion Group Representations. After 32 pages I finally realised the point of the paper. To paraphrase (the equations) it proved that if one takes a pizza and cuts it into N separate sectors, then reassembling all the N sectors in the original configuration gives the original pizza. I wish the authors had given a similar summary in their work, interspersing the equations with some motivation and insight into their long, arduous and yet noble derivations. Then I’d have more time to contribute inciteful (sic) comments to blogs like this.

Postscript: I do not wish to undermine the importance of finding rigorous proofs for what appear to be deceptively simple and obvious geometrical “facts”, but I would like to be informed by clearer exposition. I guess that means I’ll never be pure, mathematically speaking!

I have been guilty of Math++ myself, but given that I was trained as a mathematician, this is understandable.

Philosophers suffer from a similar syndrome: they tend to write very long sentences with big words.