[cevi]

The author says that mathematicians find math outside their own field to be boring and difficult to understand. As a mathematician, I think he's rather missing the point:

- mathematics is boring to everyone right up until the moment you need it. Then suddenly it becomes very interesting.

The way mathematicians typically read papers is not by randomly picking through recent submissions to the arxiv and dutifully reading everything they come across. Instead, they stumble on a hard problem in their own research which they don't know how to solve, and they search to see if anyone else has worked on it before. The paper you would have discarded as pointlessly abstract or ridiculously overspecialized just yesterday suddenly reads like a riveting novel today. No amount of creative writing tips would have made it any more interesting to you yesterday - unless the writers happened to anticipate the exact reason you would end up becoming interested in it ahead of time.

[vostok]

> mathematics is boring to everyone right up until the moment you need it. Then suddenly it becomes very interesting.

That might be true for higher level math, but anything at the graduate or undergraduate level has been already curated to be interesting.