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Pictures aid understanding. But in the vast majority of sophisticated mathematics (that I've seen), pictures would be unable to accurately represent the real as
by pnathan 16y ago
Pictures aid understanding. But in the vast majority of sophisticated mathematics (that I've seen), pictures would be unable to accurately represent the real assertions.
For instance, if I want to talk about 26-dimensional discontinuous space (the space of the basic alphabet), there is no visualization that can help you grasp the totality of the matter.
I believe there are a few interpretations of what math actually is (formal reasoning, interpretation, etc), philosophy of math 'junk'. I'll leave that to a more-beered time. :-)