thomblake comments on Bizarre Illusions - Less Wrong

11 Post author: MrHen 27 January 2010 06:25PM

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Comment author: thomblake 28 January 2010 05:07:58PM 0 points [-]

What sub-field of mathematics is this?

Number theory, ne? Or is that too general?

Comment author: Blueberry 28 January 2010 05:57:34PM 2 points [-]

It looks like it's more abstract algebra (possibly applied to number theory) that byrnema is interested in. Check out Wikipedia on module.

Comment author: byrnema 28 January 2010 06:32:53PM 1 point [-]

Precisely! Thanks also.