Re:New Shape Opens ‘Wormhole’ Between Numbers and Geometry
by abecedarius on Monday July 19, 2021 @05:23PM
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As more of a layperson, I have mixed feelings. As science journalism goes, it's excellent, but reading this sort of frontier news feels like a waste of time to me now. I only really found out that progress is being made in fields I don't understand. I bothered to check this article out because multiple people posted that it's very good, but the time I spent reading it would've been better put into getting a little bit more real understanding of old related discoveries like the unsolvability of the quintic, which is within reach at my level.
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Re:New Shape Opens ‘Wormhole’ Between Numbers and Geometry
by TheOtherHobbes on Monday July 19, 2021 @07:44PM
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I think that's more about the content than the writing. This is an incredibly esoteric topic which is only really of professional relevance to maybe a couple of hundred people in the world.
Given that, I think the writing did an excellent job of making it sound interesting and almost accessible.
In comparison quintics are a two hundred year old puzzle and not a two year old puzzle, so it's easy to find explanations elsewhere.
Re:New Shape Opens ‘Wormhole’ Between Numbers and Geometry
by abecedarius on Monday July 19, 2021 @10:30PM
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Yes. I have a couple of relevant books checked out from the library, actually.
But I wish I hadn't sort of defaulted to reading way too much pop science over the decades. Diminishing returns set in long ago.