Sounds a lot like Grothendieck's metaphor of the rising sea. pdf warning: http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~leila/grothendieckcircle/mclarty1.pdf http://www.math.juss

Sounds a lot like Grothendieck's metaphor of the rising sea. pdf warning: http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~leila/grothendieckcircle/mclarty1.pdf http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~leila/grothendieckcircle/mclarty...