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		hgomersall on Aug 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Poor Foundations in Geometric Algebra Right, complex numbers and the delta function lacked rigour for years and physicists and engineers didn't care because it turned out it captured the logic sufficiently well that useful stuff could be gained with it. Then the mathematicians did the rigour bit and everyone was happy again.

koolala on Aug 27, 2024 [–]

1 + 1 didn't need rigor for years. then people did it in the Pricipia Mathematica and no one was happy.

i + j is just as silly as 1 + 1.

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