I was surprised to note that John Hash proves a step in quantum mechanics, having to do with geometric algebra. I look at his result, a polynomial in N,M that tells what class of polynomials obey some Riemann smoothness criteria and can be mapped to rectangular, in the limit. Whew!, it was something like that.
The way a mathematician works is he actually get a mass of neurons to simulate the abstract algebra of the model. And John's equation was a lulu, it needed a compound mass of neurons. People around don't get it it, but his head was likely constantly running this machine in the background, with various input streams. He was running a compact graph machine.
I ask again, are mathematicians driven nuts?
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