Author Archives: Arkadaş

Curvature

The intrinsic curvature of a space is a subtle concept; it took a lot of hard work to formulate, clarify and crystallize its most prominent measure, the Riemann curvature tensor. Now that that work is done, of course, you can learn about … Continue reading

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Reductionism

The video above shows Myrmegraph, a screen-based artwork by Scott Snibbe. The picture, by Victor Juhasz, is from The Mind’s I, a book by D. Hofstadter and D. Dennett. From Snibbe’s page: As you move the mouse over Myrmegraph’s screen, you release a … Continue reading

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Weyl and Huxley on the abstract and the concrete

Important though the general concepts and propositions may be with which the modern industrious passion for axiomatizing and generalizing has presented us, . . . I am convinced that the special problems in all their complexity constitute the stock and … Continue reading

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