Conversation

Are your math visualizations in color? Mine are all black-and-white, presumably in imitation of diagrams in textbooks. Just realized from this tweet that I may be missing an important tool. (Does synesthesia play a role here?)
Quote Tweet
Replying to @St_Rev @Meaningness and 2 others
b) Internal representations don't necessarily transfer. If I mostly do homological algebra with kinesthetic representations, and you think syntactically, I'm not sure what I can tell you. "uh so this is like a string of p-1 red beads and...wait the _string_ is red, and..."
21
34
Replying to and
Mine is boring symbol rewrite in in whatever color the ink is, with pattern association (eg sin^2+cos^2 suggests 1 immediately. But spatial grouping and symmetry play a big role. I have to be neater in handwriting to do math.
1
2
Replying to and
One time, I was stuck on a problem involving lots of series expansions of vectors and matrices, and I broke through by starting to actually typeset it in LaTeX. The visual neatness helped me see how to solve it (a closed form thing... casting a messy optimization into an LP form)