Speaking of tooling and differential mathematics (mentioned in the article itself,) I also basically flunked “Analisi II” (and quite probably never fully unders

Speaking of tooling and differential mathematics (mentioned in the article itself,) I also basically flunked “Analisi II” (and quite probably never fully understood Analisi I,) the Italian equivalents of Calculus. Only when I changed Università and retook Analisi II, taught by a different prof, who demonstrated everything using more powerful and meaningful tools did I get it all. Same thing with electromagnetism; couldn’t ever not make a mistake with those pesky Maxwell equations until I bumped into some lecture notes treating them with Diadic Calculus (a kind of tensor) and voila, I passed. My brain is pretty average, particularly when referring to working memory. Give me a strong abstraction and I get it, ask me to wade through the minutiae and I lose it.