This is actually examples of the field of mathematics called topology and it’s fucking bullshit wizard shit.
finally, applied mathematics
Don’t worry mathematicians had a very similar reaction at first
Basically around the beginning of 20th century mathematicians were arguing about how to eliminate paradoxes from coming up in maths, and they were questioning whether the bases of maths, known for thousands of years, are complete / correct
In geometry there were those five principles from which everything else was derived, and mathematicians were like: „See, we’ll prove that geometry is sound and complete bc without any one of those principles nothing will make sense!”
And then it made sense. It made too much sense in many weird ways when they removed the 5th principle.
And so, topology was born, simply because mathematicians were so sure it wouldn’t work they decided to try it out as a joke
