[anon_tor_12345]

>gratify the ego of the author

I'm sorry that you're not mathematically literate but that is no reason to cast aspersions on expositors that have

1) zero obligation to cater to your needs

2) receive zero compensation for producing such expository pieces (since they don't count towards publication records)

>the generally accepted genre?

Indeed "gentle introduction" does not mean spoon food, it means exposition that includes niceties like motivation, examples, and diagrams. It is gentle relative to a research monograph (at which I'm sure your indignation would be astronomical).

Here's my recommendation to you on how to learn mathematics if you're serious about it but don't have the patience to struggle through "gentle introductions" like absolutely every single other practicing mathematician did: head down to your local university math department and ask about grad students willing to tutor. The going rate is ~$100/hr for the kind of spoon feeding you seem to be looking for. Quite steep I know but it's highly skilled labor after all (I'm sure you make about that as a software dev for whom this is above their skillset). But you'll be interested to that it's an inversely sliding scale for just how much spoon feeding is necessary (I personally go as low as $25 for very highly motivated students).

[dang]

As you know, you can't attack other users like this on HN, regardless of how knowledgeable you are or feel you are. Therefore I've banned this account. If you don't want to keep getting banned on HN, please follow the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[harry8]

Your shop, your rules, obviously. I think that's a shame fwiw and write now against any bans based on a cursory read of their last 3 months of comments or so. As I also did against the disappearing of the comment itself.

You may know better for many reasons. I note our concerns and goals are not necessarily aligned. YMMV.