Thom and Dieudonne kept their lunacy on the sly. Mandelbrot threw books at people. Grothendieck's /Recoltes et Semailles/ is a strange read. That Mandelbrot is the least weird of them is tricky to digest.
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I've been trying to keep my exposure to philosophers of mathematics as tiny as possible.
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There's weird swirly stuff with patterns in motion which tends to subvert the kind of mereotopologies philosophical Think-o-Persons tend to start doorstop books "My new Reality-o-System..." with
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(I am being unfair. But I sort of want to pay attention to where pattern gets weird and that's part of the motivation for spending time on chainmail lattices: they might not be realizable atomically, but they're a lot less slippery than point lattices)
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Nils Baas has some useful papers on higher order concept, though at present, think about how a mereotopologist might have difficulty with @beesandbombs's gifs
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