My sister is a mathematican and she used to say that if you want to understand a 24-dimensional space, you start from a generalized n-dimensional space and then set n=24.
This wasn't atypical of her. She would also say that if your house is on fire then you call the firefighters, but if it is not on fire then you set it on fire, thereby reducing the problem to something that you have already solved.
This wasn't atypical of her. She would also say that if your house is on fire then you call the firefighters, but if it is not on fire then you set it on fire, thereby reducing the problem to something that you have already solved.