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Reminds me of the mathematician who was asked how he mentally visualizes a 4 dimensional space.

"I simply imagine an n-dimensional space, and then set n to 4"






Reminds me of Geoffrey Hinton who, when asked how to imagine a 14-dimensional space, said: “imagine a 3-dimensional space, and say ‘fourteen’ very loudly”

This is great, can't believe I haven't heard it before.

>>> After Hilbert was told that a student in his class had dropped mathematics in order to become a poet, he is reported to have said "Good--he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician"

https://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Hilbert.html




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