@puellavulnerata @RachelHaywire Continua are super weird! There are some people trying to reformulate the foundations...
@puellavulnerata @RachelHaywire ...couldn't make head or tail of the work when I looked at it. Classical approach is v. unsatisfactory tho.
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@puellavulnerata@RachelHaywire Well, the approach certainly works, but it's Rube Goldbergy. Lots of technical weirdness we learn to ignore. -
@puellavulnerata In some sense starting with points seems like wrong move. Yeah you can reformulate w/o points but even clunkier then. -
@puellavulnerata Reality is under no obligation to be non-clunky, of course, but points, neighborhoods etc. feels to me like... -
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@puellavulnerata Very possible. I used a lot of topological methods in my work but I'm an algebraist at heart. -
@puellavulnerata I guess I just have the sense that continuity should be more or less atomic, not something to sneak up on w/infinities. -
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@puellavulnerata@RachelHaywire I remember @0xDEBA5E12 and@benedict were talking about it a year or two back.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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