In philosophy, Weyl's tile argument, introduced by Hermann Weyl in 1949, is an argument against the notion that physical space is "discrete", as if composed...
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postulate Weyl's theorem on complete reducibility Weyl's tile argument Weyl–Titchmarsh–Kodaira theory Weyl's tube formula Weyl's unitary trick Weyl (crater)...
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Mathematical universe hypothesis It from bit Simulation hypothesis Weyl's tile argument Natura non facit saltus Schmidhuber, Jürgen (1997), Freksa, Christian;...
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mathematics vs mathematical analysis Smooth function Digital physics Weyl's tile argument Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "Continuity and Infinitesimals"...
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discovery of Penrose tilings, which are formed from two tiles that can only tile the plane nonperiodically, and are the first tilings to exhibit fivefold...
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Zeno's paradoxes (section Hermann Weyl)
to Hermann Weyl, the assumption that space is made of finite and discrete units is subject to a further problem, given by the "tile argument" or "distance...
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Coxeter group (redirect from Affine Weyl group)
affine Weyl group of An (the affine symmetric group). For n = 2, this can be pictured as a subgroup of the symmetry group of the standard tiling of the...
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The Penrose–Lucas argument is a logical argument partially based on a theory developed by mathematician and logician Kurt Gödel. In 1931, he proved that...
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In philosophy, the Rietdijk–Putnam argument, named after C. Wim Rietdijk [nl] and Hilary Putnam, uses 20th-century findings in physics – specifically in...
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Root system (section Weyl chambers and the Weyl group)
product. It is not necessarily symmetric and is linear only in the first argument. The rank of a root system Φ is the dimension of E. Two root systems may...
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