started reading halmos's "finite dimensional vector spaces" having no grounding in linear algebra, and there's this intense pleasurable...
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Replying to @alicemazzy
...feeling instantly recognizing how certain elementary properties obviously follow from what I know now about abstract algebra
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Interesting. From my experience, it's much less satisfying in the other direction. (I learned linear algebra first.)
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something similar when I read about abstract algebra knowing a bit about category theory
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probably something about the sensation of jumping from behind where the author is a thought to ahead of it
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