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Re:Arvind Mithal has died by criddell on Thursday June 20, 2024 @07:23AM (#40737381)
> Math is the reality that physicists sometimes discover

Is that a reference to the mathematical universe hypothesis? Did Arvind ever work with Max Tegmark at MIT?

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Re:Arvind Mithal has died by __s on Friday June 21, 2024 @10:36AM (#40750092)
Mathematical concepts are abstracted so to be beyond universal (ie, another universe will still have the same peano arithmetic). Our universe exhibits some subset of all mathematical properties
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