GlossMath

arXiv link in, readable paper out

Every symbol, linked to the line that defines it.

Paste an arXiv link. You get the paper as a clean HTML page where hovering any math symbol shows where that paper introduced it, and one click jumps you there. It is the same move your editor makes when you jump to a definition, applied to notation.

Any shape works: /abs/, /pdf/, a bare ID, or the whole URL.

Papers already indexed are free to open, with no account. So is building one we have not read yet, up to 3 an hour. An account remembers what you have read.

What a linked symbol looks like

… all sub-layers, as well as the embedding layers, produce outputs of dimension dmodel = 512.

Links come from the paper’s own words. When we cannot find where a symbol was defined we say so and leave it unlinked, rather than inventing a definition.

Start here

Free to open, no account, and they do not use up your weekly quota.

Every paper we have read

24 more, newest first. Opening one of these is free and does not use up your weekly quota either.

How it works

  1. We fetch the source, not the PDF

    The paper is converted to real HTML with real MathML, so the text reflows, the symbols are selectable, and screen readers can reach them.

  2. We find where each symbol is introduced

    Every occurrence of a symbol is tied back to the sentence or equation in this paper that defines it, with the section it came from.

  3. You navigate

    Hover to see the definition, click to jump to it, and see every other place the same symbol appears light up at once.

We show fewer links on purpose. A symbol we are unsure about is listed as undefined with the reason, and you can see the running numbers on the accuracy page.