Anschel

queer quaker commie cat

In addition to the blurb above, I'm a recovering mathematician, Jewish, and autistic as fuck--those didn't alliterate

Sometimes I write poems, mostly in English and Spanish

I feel weird putting my age in my bio but I am in fact a Grown Up if you were worried

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in reply to @spiders's post:

I've wondered about that. The abstractions of Euclidean geometry don't exist in the world we actually see, so it seems perfectly reasonable to learn a different set of geometric assumptions and apply them to the physical objects around us. Could we look at a sheet of paper and see, not an approximation of a Euclidean plane, but an approximate hyperbolic surface? I'm sure the answer is "yes" and there's mathy people who can do it, but we're not among them

sometimes people embed 2D hyperbolic space into 3D real life space using crochet, it comes out looking like a wibbly wobbly shape because hyperbolic space has too much space per space to be flat in euclidean geometry

Is there a term for the video game version of "non-euclidean" that you have in games like Antichamber, where spaces are connected in ways that shouldn't be possible in euclidean space but space is still locally euclidean?

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