Stabilizer comments on Examples in Mathematics - Less Wrong

14 Post author: kgalias 14 December 2013 10:15PM

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Comment author: Stabilizer 15 December 2013 10:07:03PM 3 points [-]

It is important to keep in mind that this was written for laypeople, not for working mathematicians. What is "concrete" for a working mathematician can be very abstract for an average reader. For example, thinking of a 5-dimensional space is very concrete for a mathematician but very abstract to other people.