“This common and unfortunate fact of the lack of adequate presentation of basic ideas and motivations of almost any mathematical theory is probably due to the binary nature of mathematical perception. Either you have no inkling of an idea, or, once you have understood it, the very idea appears so embarrassingly obvious that you feel reluctant to say it aloud.” FeelsIdeasFactsMotivationCommonTheoryPerceptionUnderstoodObviousMathDuesMathematicalUnfortunateAdequatePresentationReluctantBinary Author:Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
