Timeline for Thinking and Explaining
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| Sep 14, 2010 at 18:39 | comment | added | Bill Thurston | @stankewicz: Thanks, that's an interesting example. "A-la-ca-Lefschetz" --- that's a great phrase. Should it be delivered with a little tune? I agree that it's a mistake to dwell too long on the meta level, excavating correctness of mental props--that's like giving a long explanation of a joke that someone doesn't "get". The trick is in setting it up so the mental prop's seem natural, but without having to say very much. | |
| Sep 14, 2010 at 13:28 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | I remember listening to someone talk about singular complex spaces: he started the talk with «Let us consider a complex space with isolated singularities...» and made a picture on the blackbloard of what I looked like clouds as a kid would draw. Watching him as he continued, it was clear that the picture actually depicted for him the richness of the phenomenon he was talking about. I envied him a little :) | |
| Sep 14, 2010 at 13:03 | history | answered | stankewicz | CC BY-SA 2.5 |