Wednesday, November 13, 2019

What Is It Like to Have an Understanding of Very Advanced Mathematics? - forbes.com article


You can answer many seemingly difficult questions quickly. But you are not very impressed by what can look like magic, because you know the trick. The trick is that your brain can quickly decide if question is answerable by one of a few powerful general purpose "machines" (e.g., continuity arguments, the correspondences between geometric and algebraic objects, linear algebra, ways to reduce the infinite to the finite through various forms of compactness) combined with specific facts you have learned about your area.

Read the full article from forbes.com at this link

The article was brought to our attention by Prof. Kumaresan, MTTS Trust

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