History of geometry and the development of the form of its language (Q1299761)

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    History of geometry and the development of the form of its language (English)
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    5 July 2000
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    The topic of the language of geometry, i.e., the manner in which the pictures of geometry may be expressed, is quite difficult to approach; that is why the author of the study under review starts from the concrete examples offered by Gothic painting and, further on, by perspective painting (horizon, perspective of size, colours, outlines, etc.). The language of projective geometry started with Desargues, the first to replace the object by its picture (XV-th century). Mention is then made of Saccheri and Lambert, who discovered many propositions of non-Euclidean geometry, in spite of their conviction that the only possible geometry is the Euclidean one. The concepts and notions introduced by Beltrami, Lobachevsky, Cayley, Klein, Riemann, Poincaré, Möbius, Cantor, Zermelo, Lakatos, etc. aro also analyzed in special sections. The study ends with a subchapter entitled ``Wittgenstein's picture theory of meaning and epistemology''.
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    language of geometry
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    perspective painting
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    horizon
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    Desargues
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    projective geometry
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    Saccheri
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    Lambert
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    Euclid and non-Euclid
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