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Paradox? the mathematics of space-time and the limits of human understanding

Paul Ernest

pp. 253-270

There is a paradox in exploring space-time and the limits of human understanding from the perspective of mathematics. For mathematics provides the language in which theories of space-time are formulated and yet is understood to be outside of space and time itself. Thus geometry is the science of space, and yet is itself beyond space.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44418-5_20

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Ernest, P. (2017)., Paradox? the mathematics of space-time and the limits of human understanding, in S. Wuppuluri & G. Ghirardi (eds.), Space, time and the limits of human understanding, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 253-270.

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