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An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry. By Bertrand A. W. Russell Demy 8vo. Pp. xvi + 201. (Cambridge: at the University Press, 1897.) THE title of this essay suggests a number of distinct problems.
Just 100 years ago the young Bernhard Riemann gave his famed paper on the foundations of geometry. He discussed space of four or more dimensions, and paved the way for the General Theory of Relativity ...
This critique of Fukaya’s work — and the attention McDuff and Wehrheim have drawn to symplectic geometry’s shaky foundations in general — has created significant controversy in the field. Tensions ...
The first volume, Prof. Robinson's “The Foundations of Geometry”, carries out this programme so far as it concerns the more usual kinds of geometry, ...