I'm in the process of writing my thesis and one of my advisors asked me: "Who are you writing this for?". I had a few ideas, but I answered, "For him and our collaborators."
"Wrong! - You should be writing for the graduate student who will be picking up your work."
Any graduate student or even many professors will be on a similar level when exposed to something new. By explaining stuff at a relatively simple level, with enough intermediate steps to outline the method, most people can grasp how you did what you did.
Maybe not 17 year olds, but aimed at people well versed in mathematics, but not necessarily in that field.
"Wrong! - You should be writing for the graduate student who will be picking up your work."
Any graduate student or even many professors will be on a similar level when exposed to something new. By explaining stuff at a relatively simple level, with enough intermediate steps to outline the method, most people can grasp how you did what you did.
Maybe not 17 year olds, but aimed at people well versed in mathematics, but not necessarily in that field.