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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In fact, you can build a system of definitions that very clearly doesn't exist in real world, like hyperbolic geometry.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes we find that obscure pure mathematics does describe reality when no one expected it to. Riemannian geometry is one such example.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Complex numbers, and a bunch more things too