What Is Space?

Jürgen Jost ()
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Jürgen Jost: Max Planck Society, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Chapter Chapter 5 in Mathematical Concepts, 2015, pp 123-175 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract How can the notion of space be conceptualized and formalized? What is the space that we are living in? In this chapter, we discuss the concepts of a manifold (including an introduction to Riemannian geometry), a simplicial complex and a scheme as possible answers.

Keywords: Prime Ideal; Proper Zero Divisors; Maximal Ideal; Short Geodesics; Geodesic Space (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20436-9_5

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