Elise_Conolly comments on Beautiful Math - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 January 2008 10:43PM

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Comment author: Elise_Conolly 11 January 2008 01:20:58AM 3 points [-]

This reminds me of when I first started learning about topological spaces, and then we added a metric, suddenly all the theorems and lemmas we'd had to prove in fiddly ways with lots of epsilons and deltas in first year analysis were blindingly and beautifully obvious. The sheer glorious interconnectedness was so overwhelming that I very nearly orgasmed in the lecture theatre!