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Woah!  Nothing is hard if you know how to do it.

But this one should be really easy. We had to find this out on ourselves, I don't know, maybe as sixth graders.

I mean the idea that maths "encompasses" the universe as compared to the universe being "bigger than maths"

Do you know that Set Theory proves that there is no Universe?

Then there is the "closed form" model, balls, saddles

Saddles are a representation of open ever-expanding hyperbolic universes.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Tue Nov 13th, 2007 at 08:40:52 AM EST
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Mathematical education in the communist countries was notably more advanced than anywhere else. Stuff was learned about two to three years earlier in Russia or Yougoslavia than in France, for example.

Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Tue Nov 13th, 2007 at 08:49:22 AM EST
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