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tomasson
·11 maanden geleden·discuss
Yeah this is an understatement. Modern technology and the world economy require irrational numbers
tomasson
·11 maanden geleden·discuss
Here’s my plug for p-adic numbers! So cool
tomasson
·11 maanden geleden·discuss
“ Nature and the universe is all about continuous quantities; integral quantities and whole numbers represent an abstraction. ”

Hard disagree. This is the problem with math disconnected from physics. The real world is composed of quanta and spectra, i.e. reality is NOT continuous!
tomasson
·11 maanden geleden·discuss
Commutative? Did the real numbers create God?

Certainly Turing and Godel showed that computation is not universal (complete). Looking at one element of number theory in isolation seems unproductive? Arithmetic space is staggeringly complex, but structured, layered. IMHO number theory is like a hall of mirrors without a defined interface with physics. See Yang Mills mass gap.