In GR terms, Levi-Civita is more like "This is a major scale and you need to know it" than serialism. Some subjects are just plain hard and only accessible to

In GR terms, Levi-Civita is more like "This is a major scale and you need to know it" than serialism. Some subjects are just plain hard and only accessible to smart persistent people. GR and QFT definitely qualify - but they seem to be warm up exercises compared to whatever Quantum Gravity will eventually become.