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In math, this is mostly an English problem I think. Next time you find a Wikipedia math page to be an impenetrable wall of jargon, click the Wikipedia language tool and choose another language, any will do.

Then use Chrome's tool to machine translate the foreign language version back to English. I've found invariably this makes the article more coherent then the native English language Wikipedia math page.

It says something about the culture for sure.




I know a lot of professional mathematicians who can't make their way through the Wikipedia articles of adjacent fields. The English entries appear to be written by the ghost of Bourbaki!


Some of them are: I've run into sections lifted straight of of Lang's Algebra several times.


This works for philosophers too. Try Schopenhauer (already easy to read in comparison) in English translation.


Since LLM are good at translating perhaps that's one of the reasons they seem to do a decent job of explaining things.




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