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> You have to get over yourself about the tools not being elegant

https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/07/11/a-bad-workman-blam...

Jokes aside, the history of mathematics is a pretty worthwhile subject to study to truly appreciate the importance and implications of tools (or mathematical discoveries in this case). There's a reason why it took humans 2000 years after Euclid first wrote his 'Elements' to discover non-euclidean geometry...



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