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Andrej Bauer

Are there space-filling curves, constructively? A blog post with pictures and animations. math.andrej.com/2024/01/30/spa

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Two questions
* Which spaces admit a space filling curve? Classically, it suffices that they be compact, locally connected, separable. But in general?
* I'm not fluent enough in topos theory: if the square is not covered by a curve in the sheaf topos, that means (does it?) that there are points of this topos which are missed by any given curve. Can one explicit such points?

@andrejbauer I love seeing the hilbert curve in action. I remember using it ages ago as a strategy for Tower Defense games

@andrejbauer The danger of reading mathstodon is that it tends to expand my todo list (in this case, github.com/metamath/set.mm/iss which just says to formalize that blog post). But this is a good thing and it isn't really "my" todo list in that it is equally aimed at anyone who formalizes in Metamath or wants to start.

GitHubCan a space filling curve exist in iset.mm? · Issue #3812 · metamath/set.mmBy jkingdon

@andrejbauer Image description: three curves each of which add to the previous one by replacing line segments with more folded curves. The limit of this process will be a space filling curve.

@andrejbauer you can prove theorem 2 without choice for the Cauchy reals. Thus, countable choice implies it for the Dedekind reals.