MR. FRANKLAND (NATURE, September 7) has raised the old problem of Bertrand's proof of the parallel-axiom by a consideration of infinite areas. This is perhaps the most subtle and the most specious of ...
Virtual reality can take you to some far-out places — mountaintops, distant cities and even fantastical game worlds. A team of artists and mathematicians is now adding to that list: universes where ...
IT is now well known by all mathematicians that Euclid's theory of parallels is not indispensable for the construction of a self-consistent geometry, but that, on the contrary, there are three ...