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Is math big or small?


big or small? Summary: When Illustrating a mathematical idea, the first thing you need to decide is the scale. Is this concept something you can hold in your hand, or something to wander around in? I will reflect on the scale of various analogies used by research mathematicians, such as Thurston’s train tracks and pictures of symplectic manifolds.

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