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On “How to Understand Things”
…asic (by undergraduate standards) subject. I think it was probably a few years later, when I came across some of the same theory but in a much more practical context at work, that most of the connections in that equivalence theorem first “clicked”. Meanwhile, here is what a gifted presenter with the right illustrations can do in about ten minutes: link to this video The 2,000 or so substantially identical comments below that video are very telling. Given the understanding you’d get with that quality of presentation, the equivalences I mentioned above would have been obvious and constructing the proofs from first principles would have been straightforward.…