[PRL] What is it like to have an understanding of very advanced X?

David Herman dherman at ccs.neu.edu
Wed Jan 4 21:00:27 EST 2012


On Jan 4, 2012, at 7:23 PM, David Van Horn wrote:

> This seems applicable beyond just math:
> 
> http://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-have-an-understanding-of-very-advanced-mathematics

Awesome! And the anonymous respondent also linked to this very nice blog post from Terry Tao, which I'd not seen before:

    http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/there%E2%80%99s-more-to-mathematics-than-rigour-and-proofs/

Dave




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