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> The integers can be interpreted geometrically as points on the number
> line, each equally spaced from the previous and from the next. Number
> theory can then be viewed as the study of the relationships of signed
> (directed) distances between these points, thus giving it a kind of
> physical reality.
>
> Now take the integers mod m. We can interpret these as m points,
> equally spaced on a circle. So in a sense, the integers mod m provide
> a kind of "non-euclidean" number theory.
>
> quasi
Einstein's Relativity is interesting because it uses independent frames of
reference w/respect to motion. How can you do this with numbers ? How to
think of a space which has no geometric origin, but still has all the nice
properties of R(n) ?
Maybe each point in the universe thinks that it is the center of the
universe? Clueless & mystified.
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