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Mathematicians of Reddit: Is there some point where you see a big picture and everything "clicks"?

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Message Posted to Online Forum/Discussion Group
Date
2013
Place
Reddit
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Feb 19, 2014

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There are "Levels" to Understanding Mathematics

The way it was described to me when I was in high school was in terms of 'levels'. Sometimes, in your mathematics career, you find that your slow progress, and careful accumulation of tools and ideas, has suddenly allowed you to do a bunch of new things that you couldn't possibly do before. Even though you were…