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Foreward to the Bolyai-Gauss-Lobachevsky 2022 special issue, published in ${\it Symmetry}$, in lieu of the 12${}^{\rm th}$ International Conference on Non-Euclidean Geometry, ``BGL-2022''.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-31 László Jenkovszky , Matthew J. Lake , Vladimir Soloviev

We use Herbrand's theorem to give a new proof that Euclid's parallel axiom is not derivable from the other axioms of first-order Euclidean geometry. Previous proofs involve constructing models of non-Euclidean geometry. This proof uses a…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Michael Beeson , Pierre Boutry , Julien Narboux

It is quite remarkable that seventy years after Hubble discovered the expansion of the Universe, we still have no idea in which of the three Friedmann-Robertson-Walker geometries we live. Most of the current literature has focussed on flat…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc Kamionkowski , Nicolaos Toumbas

The first crisis in the geometry arose in the beginning of XIXth century, when the mathematicians rejected the non-Euclidean geometry as a possible geometry of the real world. Now we observe unreasonable rejection of the non-Riemannian…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yuri A. Rylov

Inspired by the prospect of having discretized spaces emerge from random graphs, we construct a collection of simple and explicit exponential random graph models that enjoy, in an appropriate parameter regime, a roughly constant vertex…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-10-01 Pawat Akara-pipattana , Thiparat Chotibut , Oleg Evnin

While geometry with transcendental curves, like the Quadratrix of Hippias and the Spiral of Archimedes, played a significant role in our modern developments of geometry and algebra. The investigation has fallen off in the modern era despite…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Nicole Venner

The reasons of the crisis in the contemporary (Riemannian) geometry are discussed. The conventional method of the generalized geometries construction, based on a use of the topology, leads to a overdetermination of the Riemannian geometry.…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yuri A. Rylov

Latent space geometry provides a rigorous and empirically valuable framework for interacting with the latent variables of deep generative models. This approach reinterprets Euclidean latent spaces as Riemannian through a pull-back metric,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-15 Stas Syrota , Pablo Moreno-Muñoz , Søren Hauberg

Geometry is essentially a global language, which is fully understood in different times, countries and cultures. The proof of a geometric theorem (e.g. the Pythagorean Theorem) or a geometric construction (e.g. the construction of an…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-08-29 Ioannis Rizos , Nikolaos Gkrekas

We report on the following highlights from among the many discoveries made in Noncommutative Geometry since year 2000: 1) The interplay of the geometry with the modular theory for noncommutative tori, 2) Advances on the Baum-Connes…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Alain Connes

In this article, I develop an elementary system of axioms for Euclidean geometry. On one hand, the system is based on the symmetry principles which express our a priori ignorant approach to space: all places are the same to us (the…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Boris Čulina

The statement of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem brings up an unexpected form of reflexivity (major concept of philosophy of mathematics), so that geometry contemplates itself in it. It is therefore the revolutionary and multifaceted concept of…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Joel Merker , Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz

We discover suprising connections between three seemingly different problems: finding right triangles with rational sides in a non-Euclidean geometry, finding three integers such that the difference of the squares of any two is a square,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Robin Hartshorne , Ronald van Luijk

The theory of noncommutative geometry provides an interesting mathematical background for developing new physical models. In particular, it allows one to describe the classical Standard Model coupled to Euclidean gravity. However,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-05 Nicolas Franco , Michał Eckstein

Since the discovery of differential calculus by Newton and Leibniz and the subsequent continuous growth of its applications to physics, mechanics, geometry, etc, it was observed that partial derivatives in the study of various natural…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Alexandre M. Vinogradov

Anomalies drive scientific discovery -- they are associated with the cutting edge of the research frontier, and thus typically exploit data in the low signal-to-noise regime. In astronomy, the prevalence of systematics --- both "known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-16 Hiranya V. Peiris

The concept of number and its generalization has played a central role in the development of mathematics over many centuries and many civilizations. Noteworthy milestones in this long and arduous process were the developments of the real…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-10-02 Garret Sobczyk

Physical laws are strikingly simple, yet there is no a priori reason for them to be so. I propose that nomic realists -- Humeans and non-Humeans -- should recognize simplicity as a fundamental epistemic guide for discovering and evaluating…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Eddy Keming Chen

One considers the monistic conception of a geometry, where there is only one fundamental quantity (world function). All other geometrical quantities a derivative quantities (functions of the world function). The monisitc conception of a…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2010-09-16 Yuri A. Rylov

We derive Cayley's type conditions for periodical trajectories for the billiard within an ellipsoid in the Lobachevsky space. It appears that these new conditions are of the same form as those obtained before for the Euclidean case. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Vladimir Dragovic , Bozidar Jovanovic , Milena Radnovic