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minus-squareEvkoblinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoThis reminds me of turning a sphere inside out. I love weird theoretical stuff like this that seems to have no practical, real world applications.
minus-squareTheTechnician27@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoYou’d think it would have no real-world applications based on how abstract it is, but topology actually has pretty enormous practical applications. For example, knot theory comes into play in biology in the study of protein folding.
minus-squareKogasa@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThe unknot is like the knot-theoretic equivalent of 1. Not the most exciting number but hardly useless.
minus-squareTheTechnician27@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoMy very limited understanding of knot theory tells me it should be more like the knot-theoretic equivalent if 0, as it’s the additive identity.
This reminds me of turning a sphere inside out.
I love weird theoretical stuff like this that seems to have no practical, real world applications.
You’d think it would have no real-world applications based on how abstract it is, but topology actually has pretty enormous practical applications. For example, knot theory comes into play in biology in the study of protein folding.
The unknot is like the knot-theoretic equivalent of 1. Not the most exciting number but hardly useless.
My very limited understanding of knot theory tells me it should be more like the knot-theoretic equivalent if 0, as it’s the additive identity.