Editing Mathematics (section)

=== Popularization ===
{{Main|Popular mathematics}}Popular mathematics is the act of presenting mathematics without technical terms.<ref>{{Cite conference |last=Kissane |first=Barry |date=July 2009 |title=Popular mathematics |url=https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/6242/ |conference=22nd Biennial Conference of The Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers |location=Fremantle, Western Australia |publisher=Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers |pages=125–126 |access-date=December 29, 2022 |archive-date=March 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307054610/https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/6242/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Presenting mathematics may be hard since the general public suffers from [[mathematical anxiety]] and mathematical objects are highly abstract.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Steen |first=L. A. |url={{GBurl|id=-d3TBwAAQBAJ|dq="popular mathematics" analogies|p=2}} |title=Mathematics Today Twelve Informal Essays |date=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-1-4613-9435-8 |page=2 |language=en |access-date=January 3, 2023 }}</ref> However, popular mathematics writing can overcome this by using applications or cultural links.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pitici |first=Mircea |url={{GBurl|id=9nGQDQAAQBAJ|dq="popular mathematics" analogies|p=331}} |title=The Best Writing on Mathematics 2016 |date=2017|publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-8560-2 |language=en |access-date=January 3, 2023 }}</ref> Despite this, mathematics is rarely the topic of popularization in printed or televised media.