General-audience description
- General-audience description
A general-audience description of a mathematical or scientific concept is one that can be understood by the average educated person. Such descriptions are given in:
* New Scientist
* Scientific AmericanThere are also many books about science and mathematics aimed at a general audience by authors like:
* Stephen Hawking
* Carl Sagan
* George Szpiro
Many fields of science have journals aimed at an undergraduate audience assuming knowledge of the key basics in their fields (like calculus). Such journals include:
* [http://www.maa.org/mathhorizons/ Math Horizons] , expository math articles written by mathematicians
* [http://www.jurp.org/ JURP] , physics research articles written by undergrads
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