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having done both of these things i can confirm, yes. graduate level math looks hard from the outside because of the jargon / symbolism but that's just a matter of unfamiliar language. high quality prose is, almost by definition, very readable so it doesn't look hard. but writing well involves this very global use of one's whole being to prioritize what is relevant, interesting, entertaining, clarifying, etc. and ignore what is not, whereas math can successfully be done in this very narrow autistic way
@QiaochuYuan How many hours a day did you spend solving Olympiad problems growing up? This is disingenuous. The part of grad math that is just a matter of getting the definitions is not that hard, yes—but hard problems involve quite a lot of connection making and info prioritization.