Assume a spherical rabbit

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This person has a knack of explaining math very well without being condescending. You'll find the Poincaré conjecture, Riemann hypothesis, Nash embedding theorem etc. all explained. And unlike certain New York Times writers, s/he does not say wrong things in the interest of "reaching out to the lay person".

Or consider Einstein's "explanation" of relativity.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

What a fucker!! I'm sure the lay person left with a very enhanced picture of relativity in his/her head. That sounds to me like Einstein saying "You're not going to understand it anyway. So let me give you some bullcrap instead. If you are smart, you'll be insulted that I chose to do this. But most probably you'll just tell people what a down-to-earth person I am"

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