[WikiEN-l] Does openness dull the bleeding edge?

Fri Sep 1 09:54:16 UTC 2006

stevertigo wrote

> > "David Gerard" wrote
> > > arXiv.org is reputed to perform a useful role. How's it look from your
> > > view as an academic mathematician?
> 
> > charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com wrote:
> > Experts writing for experts. Even within the field this stuff is hardly readable. 
> 
> There are a few [[Open access]] repositories out there.
> But is it really the case that "this stuff is hardly readable" or is
> it the case that this stuff isnt linkable and therefore hard to 
> corroborate with other current research, as well as authoritative 
> references (like Wikipedia)?

See a page such as [[K-theory (physics)]] to get the flavour.

Note that it is not the failure to wikify and provide sources that makes this (I imagine) inaccessible to 99.9% of readers. 

Charles

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