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by nuncanada 1583 days ago
Mathematicians have been constantly been giving bad names do their concepts... Imaginary Numbers is one of the atrocious ones, Imaginary Numbers are part of the fabric of our reality... Meanwhile Real Number were axiomatized in a way that creates completely unrealistic numbers, "ghost-like" numbers, numbers that can never be given a name... The first course in Analysis is ridden with examples of Continuous Functions that are not continuous in any sense humans would consider ever it...
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Completely and utterly disagree, it may have been the case in the 1800s or whatever but the naming sense of modern mathematics is pretty on point and actually incredibly insightful. Consider the definition of a "connected" topological space and tell me it doesn't tell you something about society.