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A comment on Intuition in Mathematics (2012) [pdf].

Re:Intuition in Mathematics (2012) [pdf] by xwat on Monday January 23, 2017 @03:09PM (#13465494)
A quote from Von Neumann comes to my mind:

"Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."

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Re:Intuition in Mathematics (2012) [pdf] by gamma_function on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:21PM (#13477192)
The same might be true of electrical engineering. I find it quite difficult sometimes to develop intuition about how electricity moves in analog circuits.
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