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Mathematical formulas with real-world interpretations can use those variable names. The problem occurs when the thing you're trying to express has no analogue in the real world. What variable name should I give to a reduced Noetherian subscheme of an arbitrary scheme? If you think "reducedNoethereianSubscheme" is a better variable name than X, then you'll love writing the notation for a function on it:

f: reducedNoethereianSubscheme -> reducedNoethereianSubscheme

It's surprising how everyone thinks they can make math better, but nobody even knows about what it's like to begin with.



That's totally unreadable. What is 'f'? Did you mean reducedNoethereianSubschemeTransformer?




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