alright just for fun: AMA but only about math, will attempt to speed-explain stuff with as few symbols and equations as possible and see what happens
(esp happy to field questions about stuff that seems basic to you and that you feel like you should've gotten a long time ago!)
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what's the whole deal with "models"?
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hmm can you elaborate? like models of physical situations, that kind of thing? like what's the deal about the relationship between "models" and "reality"?
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uh i think this kind of thing? although i know very little about it?
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oh model theory yeah sure. so, there's a general pattern in modern mathematics where you define some class of objects in terms of them having some operations satisfying some axioms, e.g. groups, rings, fields, etc.
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