VALIDITY CEASES TO EXIST. “The idea that simple manifold concepts may not apply at small distances was anticipated by Riemann in his famously prophetic Habilitationschrift of 1854: “Now it seems that the empirical notions on which the metrical determinations of space are founded, the notion of a solid body and of a ray of light, cease to be valid for the infinitely small.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022