[thanatropism]

There's room for accessible and for abstruse literature. Usually what happens with novel work is that initial publications are abstruse but met with excitement by the scholarly community and gradually more accessible works (as the number of collaborators/coauthors grows too) are published.

That said, even if multi-culti math means that top-line researchers are going to be spending time with song-and-dance introductions, she should still have put a grad student onto the task of making the short paper that experts will actually read.

If the whole thing is a matter of style and not of obfuscation, this would have given a grad student an easy, cool first publication.

[pizza]

Well, Harvey Mudd is an undergrad-only STEM school, so I'm not sure having a grad student edit it would have been possible.

[thanatropism]

Well, her peers in her research program probably have grad students...

I mean, she's working in collaboration with someone, right?

[dminor]

In the history of the paper she mentions some summer research, but that is for undergrads. Harvey Mudd is all undergrad and tends to emphasize teaching over research (at least, that was the philosophy 20 years ago o_O).

[mathperson]

What is multi-culti?

[thanatropism]

It's a common sarcastic term hurled at things like "inclusive CS".

For all I know this iteration of "inclusive" could be the Right Stuff -- proper intellectual discipline even as it advances secondary goals of "inclusiveness". But stiiill... she should have by now had the common courtesy of producing a short document aimed at experts, possibly prepared by her underlings. This would also have helped the career of the underlings.

[tptacek]

"Physics for poets".

[thaumasiotes]

"Multicultural"