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Part of the reason why I usually prefer physicists to mathematicians, is that apart from the fact that physicists often try to appeal to intuition rather than caked and dry logical arguments, the physicist rarely condescends. The mathematician believes that definitions and proofs alone are enough to conjure up the right idea, whereas the physicists doesn't stop unless they themselves can 'see' it.
— Dec 16, 2016 10:23PM
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Images are non-rigorous, as much as they may be the life-blood, the very stuff of mathematics. But we introduce rules, logic, and generalisation in order to utilise our images more precisely. But not only that. Another observation is that having an archive of 'rigorous images' or mathematical facts is the basis of advancing proofs at later on. Rigour is good for 'equating' very different notions of images, motifs.
— Oct 02, 2015 08:45AM
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While not entirely related to the book, in trying to work out an unproved but trivial statement in one of the chapters I was browsing, I felt it necessary to articulate a rather banal but important insight one gains into what math is when one actually tries to do math: whereas 'images' are satisfactory for reasoning about most facts of daily life, in certain situations rigour becomes important.
— Oct 02, 2015 08:38AM
