Surprised and grateful that so many of you have shared your experience of mathematical imagery! Fascinating both the differences and the commonalities.
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Also heard reasons not to, which may explain the taboo: —Too personal, like talking specifically about your experience of sex —Feels vulnerable because you think you’re bad at it, having had to figure it out entirely privately —Probably real mathematicians know how to do it right
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David Chapman Retweeted Laurens Gunnarsen
Maybe personal accounts of mathematical experience can lift the cloud of collective ignorance and empower us all! (Like when decent sex manuals first became available in the 1970s? Revolution in enjoyment for millions, apparently)https://twitter.com/MathPrinceps/status/1189938823397965824 …
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Laurens Gunnarsen @MathPrincepsReplying to @MathPrinceps @Meaningness @DRMacIverWhat is true is that few mathematics professors are willing to confess publicly their private heuristics and intuitions; as Grothendieck once famously lamented, a perverse taboo among them seems to seal their lips on these matters, which, as Leibniz correctly argued, matter most.2 replies 0 retweets 7 likesShow this thread
Note Bill Thurston's reply to this Math Overflow question:http://bit.ly/2oCO65w
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