Favorite topic in advanced math?

13 points by anonlastname ↗ HN
What is your favorite niche concept in higher math?

Im looking for topics I could buy a book about.

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I like the higher dimensional regular polytopes. Visualizing them is fun mental exercise.
You're in luck! Syntopia generative art blog just published a nice intro

Building 4D Polytopes With WebGL

https://syntopia.github.io/Polytopia/polytopes.html

Personally, I like computational probability. Theoretically I believe it falls under the more formal rubric of "measure theory". With stochastic processes remaining a very active field. Particularly around nascent quantum computing algorithms, quantum walks, etc.

Probabilistic Models of Cognition

https://probmods.org/