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I think the past 100 years are: “Algebra and geometry are the same?… Oh, our whole field is blind people describing elephants.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
by zmgsabst 4y ago
I think the past 100 years are:
“Algebra and geometry are the same?… Oh, our whole field is blind people describing elephants.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
- Koshkin 4y agoA.k.a. Algebraic Topology.
- zmgsabst 4y agoYeah — but we’re still digesting the impacts. Eg, you see that algebra and geometry “reappear” in things like computing — and the different perspectives of difference equations (geometry) versus typed statements (algebra). Or, in things like category theory giving a framework where we can “abstract” arguments from different (type) theories that are the same “shape” — which has connected a number of fields.