> Paraphrasing Hardy, 'exposition is for second-rate minds'.
Forgive me if I have no sympathy for current mathematicians who think this way. It's a pretty ugly kind of arrogance.
Some people told themselves they were the pinnacle, the first-rate mind, as opposed to all the second-rater. Well guess what, now your first-rate mind is a commodity and exposition is more valuable. They'd better learn to live with it.
Forgive me if I have no sympathy for current mathematicians who think this way. It's a pretty ugly kind of arrogance.
Some people told themselves they were the pinnacle, the first-rate mind, as opposed to all the second-rater. Well guess what, now your first-rate mind is a commodity and exposition is more valuable. They'd better learn to live with it.