Evil Mathematicians: Daunting Obscurity
A devil insists mathematicians must never explain things too clearly, to keep the field fearsomely incomprehensible.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-02-01-history-s-most-evil-mathematicians--evil-mathematicians-daunting-obscurity/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
Devil: "Now, now, we mustn't explain things too clearly! We all know that the best way to build our discipline's prestige is by cultivating a tradition of daunting obscurity and fearsome incomprehensibility…"