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minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·2 years agoIn fact, you can build a system of definitions that very clearly doesn’t exist in real world, like hyperbolic geometry.
minus-squaretate@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 years agoSometimes we find that obscure pure mathematics does describe reality when no one expected it to. Riemannian geometry is one such example.
minus-squareNatanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoComplex numbers, and a bunch more things too
In fact, you can build a system of definitions that very clearly doesn’t exist in real world, like hyperbolic geometry.
Sometimes we find that obscure pure mathematics does describe reality when no one expected it to. Riemannian geometry is one such example.
Complex numbers, and a bunch more things too