I'm not a mathematician, but was a theoretical physicist for more than a decade, and the Quora article accords well with my experience in understanding mathematics.
(Fairly) readable examples of some of the points made in the above article may be found in Terry Tao and Scott Aaronson's comments about how to think intuitively in high dimensions:
http://www.quora.com/Mathematics/What-is-it-like-to-understa...
I'm not a mathematician, but was a theoretical physicist for more than a decade, and the Quora article accords well with my experience in understanding mathematics.
(Fairly) readable examples of some of the points made in the above article may be found in Terry Tao and Scott Aaronson's comments about how to think intuitively in high dimensions:
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/25983/intuitive-crutches-f...