geek moment of the day

[phantom_child]

the math colloquia we're required to go to are usually fairly dull, but today's was fantastic. The lecture wasn't really about math, it was about coral reefs. A side topic of the presentation was that mathematicians have been studying hyperbolic space for two thousand years, ever since Euclid, but no one had ever been able to construct a model of

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[living_harmony]

that is pretty amazing. but how did that structure tie into coral reefs? i'm intrigued...