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Mathematical Logic Weekly Seminar سمینار هفتگی منطق ریاضی




TITLE  
The (almost) Pointless Geometries


SPEAKER  
Piergiorgio Odifreddi  
University of Turin, Italy  
 


TIME  
Thursday, February 28, 2019,   14:00 - 16:00


VENUE   Lecture Hall 1, Niavaran Bldg.



SUMMARY

 

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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