Timeline for Too old for advanced mathematics?
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| May 7, 2014 at 3:27 | comment | added | roy smith | as one of the great italian geometers said: the basic tools of geometry are "projection and section", i.e. reduction to lower dimensions. | |
| Dec 5, 2011 at 2:01 | comment | added | Elizabeth S. Q. Goodman | What?? Visualizing may not always be a good way to find a proof, but it is a great way to get a new conjecture. | |
| Jun 7, 2010 at 14:31 | comment | added | Steven Gubkin | I more often "kinesthetize" 3D objects - I imagine what they feel like. This does not require 2D projection, and it does not generalize well to higher dimensions, but it helps me a lot in dimension 3. | |
| Dec 24, 2009 at 2:04 | comment | added | Kevin H. Lin | Alex: Can you visualize 3 dimensions? Actually, not really. We only understand 3 dimensions by understanding the 2 dimensional projections of the 3 dimensions we live in. We visualize 3 dimensional objects by viewing them from different angles -- that's why we have two eyes. Similarly, we can visualize higher dimensional objects by "viewing them from different angles", that is, by understanding their projections to lower dimensions. | |
| Dec 19, 2009 at 21:31 | comment | added | Alex Wong | Can you visualise in n-dimensions? | |
| Dec 18, 2009 at 21:49 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | What does this mean? I personally don't understand anything until I can visualize it. | |
| Dec 17, 2009 at 20:31 | history | answered | Alex Wong | CC BY-SA 2.5 |