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Truth Through Geometry

2018-02-21 · 3,311 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Truth Through Geometry — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. The first thought bubble emerging from the figure's mind is a loopy ring. A human child's first categories of the world
Truth Through Geometry — pen and ink drawing

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The first thought bubble emerging from the figure's mind is a loopy ring. A human child's first categories of the world are topological, not geometric (Jean Piaget *). This phase of evolutionary (species-level) and developmental (child-level) complexity is characterized by the inability to formalize topology beyond the immediate geometric forms found in nature.

The second thought bubble emerging from the figure's mind is the idea of a point. Defining a point implies defining the space the point exists within. Thus the innovation of the infinitesimal "point" relies upon the shadow-concept of a vast, or even infinite, "space". Think about it from the point of view of a RAM-limited…

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