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I wonder if there is some hidden factor in the minds of those mathematicians that allows them to think so easily in abstract terms. I have always needed to beg
by barbudorojo 12y ago
I wonder if there is some hidden factor in the minds of those mathematicians that allows them to think so easily in abstract terms. I have always needed to begin with simple examples and from them to go to generalities. Perhaps they learned all the easy stuff when they were children and all those years of their adolescence were employed to enrich their minds with more and more general and powerful concepts and frameworks. Then, when they mature they no longer needs to think about the concrete, for then those abstracts ideas are as concrete like a tree for a child.
That vision is only achievable for those able to live alone, to wander with their thoughts, to lose themselves in the island of their inner world. Their inner world and ideas are more real and concrete than what we see with our eyes. They don't see a prime number, a prime ideal is only point in the spectrum of a ring, their math ideas are so colorful that nobody can reach that peak without forgetting where we come from and that the earth is our planet. They live in a different math heaven always climbing to reach the book (Erdos ideal).