  We review some unusual facts about the theory of non-relativistic anyons in
2+1 dimensions, and use it as a laboratory to explore how interesting features
of non-relativistic field theory correspond to those of many-body quantum
mechanics. In particular, we offer an explanation of how Jackiw-Pi vortices
arise as the classical limit of certain many-body states in the quantum
mechanical theory. Along the way, we make various interesting observations
about universal features of the spectrum of anyons subject to different amounts
of tuning.
