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- Jul 2015
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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which was their armor against their world.
A whole dissertation could be (likely has been) written on this idea of "urban" black style as a kind of "armor against the world."
It seems incredibly valuable for young people to acknowledge (and be acknowledged for) the cultural power of style.
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- Feb 2014
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users-cs.au.dk users-cs.au.dk
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The intended readers (all twelve of them) can de- co de the formal presentation, detect the new idea hidden in lemma 4, ignore the routine and uninteresting calculations of lemmas 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and see what the author is doing and why he do es it. But for the noninitiate, this is a cipher that will never yield its secret.
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To read his pro ofs, one must b e privy to a whole sub culture of motivations, standard arguments and examples, habits of thought and agreed-up on mo des of reasoning.
One of the most damning things about mathematical writing. So much "rigor" and not enough context.
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