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		abstractbill 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure... A question I enjoy asking myself when I'm wondering about this stuff is "if there are alien mathematicians in a distant galaxy somewhere, do they know about this?" For complex numbers my gut feeling is yes, they do.

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matt-attack 5 days ago [–]

This is precisely why I’ve always lived physics, as used to something like “geography or history”.

For the reason you just stated.

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