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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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Mr Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk> writes:

> As I can read you like a book and anticipate your next reply: yes the
> complex plane is an abstraction and no I don't think complex number
> theory is bullshit.  This is not the same kind of abstraction as made
> with projective geometry.

"God created the integers. Everything else is the work of man."
     -- Leonard Kronecker (he was a mathematician, you won't know him)

In other words, its all abstractions, darling.
Instead of claiming to read me like a book, go read an actual book.