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Starting from the scenario Euclid-Bolyai-Einstein.

Our aim is to propose several itineraries which follow the scenario having as a first step Euclid's Fifth Postulate; as a second step the Bolyai-Lobachevsky's non-Euclidean geometries and as a third step Einstein's relativity theory. The role of Euclid's fifth postulate is successively assumed by Ar...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 192; no. 7; pp. 2139 - 2150
Main Author: Marcus, Solomon
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Jul2015
Subjects:
Relativity (Physics)
Axioms
Metric geometry
Affine geometry
Computable functions
Euclidean algorithm
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