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Also, this post hasn't aged well at all. Mirror Symmetry, monstrous moonshine, ricci flows have had huge implications in math.
by rsj_hn 7y ago
Also, this post hasn't aged well at all. Mirror Symmetry, monstrous moonshine, ricci flows have had huge implications in math.
- bigred100 7y agoI’m not qualified to comment on the mathematical content but given his coworkers in the department I can’t imagine he’s unaware of these things.
- klyrs 7y agoAll of that predates this post; it's a mature field of math he's swiping at. He's a shitposter and this one isn't even informative. He's got a few nuggets in there about finitism that are illuminatory. And on one hand, an engineer's, a programmer's, mindset doesn't need what can't be stored on a world-scale computer. But, such talk makes few friends in math.
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