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Thursday, November 8, 2018

Reality vs. Axiomatic Thinking

Filed under: G-Notes,General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:16 pm

From https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/…

A  Few  of  My  Favorite  Spaces:
The Fano Plane

The intuition-challenging Fano plane may be
the smallest interesting configuration
of points and lines.

By Evelyn Lamb on October 24, 2015

"…finite projective planes seem like
a triumph of purely axiomatic thinking
over any hint of reality. . . ."

For Fano's axiomatic  approach, see the Nov. 3 Log24 post
"Foundations of Geometry."

For the Fano plane's basis in reality , see the eightfold cube
at finitegeometry.org/sc/ and in this journal.

See as well "Two Views of Finite Space" (in this journal on the date 
of Lamb's remarks — Oct. 24, 2015).

Some context:  Gödel's Platonic realism vs. Hilbert's axiomatics
in remarks by Manuel Alfonseca on June 7, 2018. (See too remarks
in this journal on that date, in posts tagged "Road to Hell.")

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