Your comment shows a common misunderstanding of what mathematicians are trying to do. Modern mathematical notation is not obfuscated, it is in fact making the object being described much easier to perceive for humans.
Explaining the equation you see in English words is what every physics book does, however the equation itself represents a concept that is not human. It comes from an alien universe of symmetries and relations and we have spent centuries to arrive at the current way of writing these down in a way which makes them easy to work with.
You can formulate the solution to a quadratic equation as:
The negative linear term, added and subtracted from the square root of the quantity which is the difference between the square of the linear term and the product of four times the constant term and the quadratic term, all divided by twice the quadratic term.
Modern mathematicians write:
x = (-b +- sqrt(b^2 - 4ac)) / 2a
The difference is night and day. You cannot remove the essential complexity from a problem. You can only try to get close to its representation.
Nontrivial knots don't exist in 2D, so not really.
Something almost analogous is if you imagine two circles: one smaller and one larger in 2D. Let's say the smaller circle is inside the larger. It's impossible to move the smaller one outside smoothly without intersecting the larger.
In 3D of course this is trivial, just move the smaller circle up away from the 2D plane, then over the larger one and down on the plane again.
Explaining the equation you see in English words is what every physics book does, however the equation itself represents a concept that is not human. It comes from an alien universe of symmetries and relations and we have spent centuries to arrive at the current way of writing these down in a way which makes them easy to work with.
You can formulate the solution to a quadratic equation as:
The negative linear term, added and subtracted from the square root of the quantity which is the difference between the square of the linear term and the product of four times the constant term and the quadratic term, all divided by twice the quadratic term.
Modern mathematicians write:
x = (-b +- sqrt(b^2 - 4ac)) / 2a
The difference is night and day. You cannot remove the essential complexity from a problem. You can only try to get close to its representation.