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A Common Road

There is no Royal Road

In late antiquity there was a historian named Proclus who recounts of a story of one of the most influential mathematicians of all time, Euclid. Credited with the axiomatization of the Geometry of his day, his name became known from antiquity onward. A testament of his might remains in the form of his book, known in English as Elements. According to Proclus, King Ptolemy the first of Egypt had invited Euclid to join the library of Alexandria. At a banquet in honor of the occasion, King Ptolemy had noted the difficulty in proceeding through Elements and expressed a desire for a shorter path to understanding this volume. As legend has it, Euclid is reported to have said

There is no royal road to geometry

In other words, to understand the abstract field of mathematics, one must join the numerous men and women of the ages who patiently explored implication after derivation after calculation and consideration in their journeys from ignorance to an understanding of mathematics. We as well who seek not that supposed βασιλικὴ ὁδός instead travers the common road of understanding. In honor of that spirit and in keeping with the old adage that slow and steady wins the race, we proclaim

There is only A Common Road