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What is the most Reddit branch of mathematics?
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>>16916956
Fractal geometry.
Probably the one field that gets less interesting the more you learn about it so everyone that talks about it is a midwit who's knowledge of the concept stops at "it exists and has some applications I guess. Something Something coastlines."
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All of "pure" mathematics.
I mean in the sense of function and use of the math in question.
"Pure" category theory is fine if you intend to apply it using functional programming.
Infinite categories, and abstraction for the sake of abstraction and "how far can we go with the rules of our language game" in general, is pure Reddit.
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>>16917418
You have to remember that >>16917552 is just another fractal expression of the filter that mogged you.
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lmao so many people got filtered
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>What is the most Reddit mathematician?
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>>16921072
What would "poly-dimensional" topology look like, shit covered dicks for brains?
>topology in spaces that somehow have multiple dimensions, i.e. are "gluings" of spaces that have varying dimensions
>the study of different dimensional versions of the same object that are "isomorphic" wrt maps
>something else
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notice how nobody has mentioned algebraic geometry?
yeah
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>>16922015
It uses some algebraic geometry out of necessity (like any respectable branch of math), since AG provides the right setting to study various groups and representations. However it doesn't really have anything to do with the things that algebraic geometers care about.
In any case, it was a bait post.
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>>16922439
>there's an infinite number of numbers
>there's an infnite number of powers of 2
>the algorithm repeats an infinite number of times until it lands on a power of 2 and then cascades down to 1
idk sounds like something that'd be easy to prove with set theory
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>>16922510
It is self-evident.
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>>16922510
There are 3 theoretically possible outcomes
>it eventually lands on a power of 2
>it eventually lands on a number that was already in its own sequence and thus repeats forever
>it grows infinitely
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spbp
>oh my heckin ramanujan we proved that the totient function of every perfect sum of divisors of a prime decomposition of this random subset of natural numbers with le heckin beautiful properties is representable as an infinite series that has [math]\pi[/math] in it!
>we had to piggyback off of algebraic geometry, complex analysis, finite group theory, and 10 other subfields of mathematics to prove this heckin' awesome quirk chungus theorem that will never ever be used in the aforementioned fields
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>>16920989
Nah dude, Category Theory is super cool and probably a little useful, but some of its top thinkers are constantly showing off that they are a card holding gay race communist in good standing. It's not reddit inherently, but by association to embarrassing people.
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>>16936644
The only reason why it has these people is because by mathematical standards its still young, and therefore ripe for people seeking quick career advancement. The field itself is just a victim of the usual academic politics.
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I'm sorry but, number theory is for people who actually give a fuck about what they're doing, and if you disagree you are literally a fucking robot, do not reply to me.
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>>16921664
The bottom of the iceberg is always made-up nonsense, brush up on low-latency memetics.
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