Two Remarks on Ancient Greek Geometry
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Modern physical theories tell us that space is not euclidean. Yet, to most people, euclidean geometry seems most natural. Furthermore, most mathematical theories of non-euclidean geometry refer back to euclidean geometry in one way or another. For example, in differential geometry, the differential areas are almost always approximately Euclidean. Why is this? I want to suggest here a reason rooted in our biological programming. I base this on two technical results. One, mentioned by Herbert Busemann [2], is an idea of the physicist Helmholtz about the mobility of rigid objects. As Busemann puts it (on p. 51, his emphasis),
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تاریخ انتشار 1996