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Writing is hard — and it should be - David Bessis

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The excruciating art of clarifying your mind

Writing is hard — and it should be The excruciating art of clarifying your mind David Bessis Sep 15, 2025 120 5 24 Share My dear Serre, Thanks for the various papers you’ve so generously sent me, as well as for your letter. Nothing new here. I’ve finished my ridiculous piece on homological algebra (but it’s the only way I have of understanding, through sheer persistence, how things work)… As Kevin Frey and I sat together to resolve outstanding issues in the draft of the English language edition of Mathematica , we spent twenty minutes debating this tiny passage from a 1956 letter from Alexande

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Writing is hard — and it should be - David Bessis

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