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Mathematical Logic Weekly Seminar
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سمینار هفتگی منطق ریاضی
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TITLE
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The (almost) Pointless Geometries
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SPEAKER
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Piergiorgio Odifreddi
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University of Turin, Italy
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TIME
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Thursday, February 28, 2019,
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14:00 - 16:00
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Lecture Hall 1, Niavaran Bldg.
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SUMMARY |
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Many philosophical schools of mathematics reject the notion of infinity, and restrict attention to finite structures and objects. At first sight it would seem that they could not deal at all with classical geometry, since its usual entities (segments, lines, circles) all consist of infinitely many points. To bypass the problem, modern mathematics has developed a number of finite versions of Euclidean and non Euclidean geometries, which raise many subtle and difficult problems, the solutions of some of which have even led to a couple of Fields medals.
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تهران، ضلع جنوبی
ميدان شهيد باهنر (نياوران)، پژوهشگاه
دانشهای بنيادی، پژوهشکده رياضيات
School of
Mathematics, Institute for Research in
Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Niavaran
Bldg., Niavaran Square, Tehran
ipmmath@ipm.ir
♦ +98 21
22290928 ♦
math.ipm.ir |
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