[gnatman]

>> “You keep holding on to hope, then breaking it, and moving forward by picking up ideas from the ashes,” [Baek] said in an interview with a web magazine published by Korean Institute for Advanced Study.

“I’m closer to a daydreamer by nature, and for me mathematical research is a repetition of dreaming and waking up.”

beautiful!

[yearoftherabbit]

Professional mathematician here. Jin's description is spot on. Each repetition of the cycle he describes above feels like you're able to see things in progressively higher resolution. Then one day you wake up and realize you're now an expert.