Tuesday, October 16, 2007

isolation, and "translating" mathematics.

maybe there is a down-side to working at home most of the time. today i met with the adviser, and i felt like someone stumbling out of a cave, squinting at sunlight and rambling nonsense.

(never mind that today was actually cloudy.)

there is a drawback to working in isolation for too long a time. it takes longer to explain, because you have to remember how to communicate with others, how to find that conceptual framework which is compatible for your mind and their minds.


in other words, if math is a language, then it takes longer to translate what we want to say to each other.

me, i doubt i'm easy to understand; there's also the possibility that i'm wrong about something and it wouldn't make sense anyway. \:

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