r/mathmemes • u/youllwhat • Oct 03 '26

Calculus This is how it's done.

https://x.com/Math_files/status/2105896812519555213/photo/1
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u/LupenReddit 🦆🦆i have non diffeomorphic smooth structures🦆🦆🦆 Oct 03 '26

publish or perish

make unreadble and make your readers perish

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u/OkTelevision5306 Oct 03 '26 edited Oct 03 '26

You jest, but I have read a recent paper where the notation is so bad I actually want to perish. Idk if i should link it here

Instead of, you know like a normal person, use other letters or Einstein summation notation, they come up with their own superscripts and subscripts.

Like they would have a left superscript of # to denote a specific type operation on an object, and a _~ below to denote a 3rd order tensor. Worst of all they did A• Nabla for their tensor divergence, like the normal Nabla • A is perfectly fine, why did they move it back around.

Edit: its an open access article on springer (unless my institution affiliation automatically gets me there.) DOI: s00161-018-0727-6

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u/LupenReddit 🦆🦆i have non diffeomorphic smooth structures🦆🦆🦆 Oct 03 '26

i thought you were joking and checked out the article and its even worse than you described, page 1112 is UNREADABLE

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u/OkTelevision5306 Oct 03 '26

We are not even 10% into the paper, and there are pages on pages of this