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Not everything can be so easily named. A lot of times mathematicians deal with a much higher level of abstraction than you are, and at that level, there are no intuitive names available. It is not a failing of mathematicians, but rather a failing of human natural language to be unable to name these concepts.

You might want to read some very old math books that predated the introduction of symbols to stand for things. Go read how ancient mathematicians express Pythagoras's theorem. We have verbose monstrosities that is much more simplified now.

Natural language is verbose. Once you can deal with the level of abstraction, conciseness reduces your cognitive load significant.




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