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#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Meta Torture of Mathematical Comfort
Complex numbers satisfy the same properties as real numbers that we're used to. There is an inverse for every non-zero number that you can find like number five has an inverse one over five but one plus i also has an inverse for instance. You get what's called coternians discovered by an Irish mathematician Hamilton in the 19th century and then in in the eight-dimensional there is something similar called octonions. The structure exists in dimension one two four and eight which are all powers of two those square is four two to the third powers eight That's one of the bigger mysteries in mathematics why it is so yes a hint there's a hint of what's missing in our
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