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It’s a “thing” in certain mathematical circles to reduce everything to the purest possible definition and then refuse to sully that purity with pedestrian nonsense like practical examples.

Any attempt at requesting clarification is met with: “This is the only fully general definition” or some such.

It inevitably leads to articles that can’t be understood even in principle without understanding everything else already, because simple concepts are rephrased in terms of the most general (most abstracted) concepts.

My favourite is that they never miss an opportunity to rephrase alternation like 0,1,0,1 in terms of exponentials raised to complex powers.

Or computer algorithms that couldn’t have existed before the nineteen hundreds using symbols from Ancient Greek and maybe two other character sets just to make it more spicy if you want to “translate” it back into mere code.