abstract

So, opposite the abstract body, we focus on something we call the reclaimed body.

Why should the abstract, creative, and often bizarre ideas that spring from a mathematician's imagination so often be the perfect language with which we understand the universe?

But we’re not abstract and anonymous.

So, it's the opposite of what the abstract body is about.

In order to get clearer on this thing that feels so abstract and yet is driving our global conflicts, I needed to dig deeper.

Why should the esoteric math of group theory, which was originally designed to study the abstract nature of symmetry, be fundamental to understanding everything from particle physics to the patterns in crystals?