As I've progressed to more "advanced" math research topics, it feels like the ideas and steps I use and see in proofs are not more sophisticated or clever. It's more that everything is just happening at a deeper level of abstraction.

As I've progressed to more "advanced" math research topics, it feels like the ideas and steps I use and see in proofs are not more sophisticated or clever. It's more that everything is just happening at a deeper level of abstraction.