[Blindmath] Question for Blind Mathematicians

[Susan Jolly]

First, Connie, I'm honored that you saved something I wrote and quoted from 
it.  I still stand behind everything I wrote at the time.

However, I'd like to emphasize that I believe that understanding math is 
MUCH more important than producing material in a format the professor can 
read.

Before I retired, I had a number of foreign-born (sighted) scientists as 
colleagues.  These persons were very talented scientists but, since English 
was not their first language, their written English was not always the best. 
Our institution employed technical editors to clean up scientific articles 
written by these scientists and, of course, articles written by the many 
other scientists who, despite English being their first language, also did 
not write well.  Clearly our institution felt that the scientific 
contribution was much more significant than the writing ability.  I note 
that the salary of our technical editors was significantly less than that of 
our scientists.

We need more mathematicians, scientists, engineers, and other technical 
persons whose contributions are so valuable that it makes sense to employ 
other persons to provide any needed secretarial help.

Sincerely,
Susan Jolly