I have a question for people who read this and whose eyes aren't immediately glazing over: I am incredibly put off by math that feels like "symbol manipulation". Equations that I can't easily put in terms of geometry or statistics. I think something in me "broke" with the constant "i" (square root of -1) during my education - a purely synthetic concept that I used to manipulate equations and get good grades without any intuition behind it. I am having a similar experience just looking at the aesthetics of this paper. Swimming in symbols, detached from tangible reality.
My question is: did I just kinda hit the limit of my IQ / abstract thinking skills? Do other people smarter than me think all this makes sense on an intuitive level?
My question is: did I just kinda hit the limit of my IQ / abstract thinking skills? Do other people smarter than me think all this makes sense on an intuitive level?