While this is true, it doesn't help that postwar mathematics seems to have run out of useful names for things. Understanding what an algebraic group "really is

While this is true, it doesn't help that postwar mathematics seems to have run out of useful names for things. Understanding what an algebraic group "really is" (with variations and extensions e.g. Lie groups) is more than one lifetime's work, but if you know what "group" means in English, well, you won't be disappointed. "Ring", even "field" kind of work this way. If I ever really develop an intuition for what a magma is, and I doubt it, this will not resemble the molten core of the earth. Or will it?