Two spaces that already found their geometer in the thirties

2002/07/23 by Gavriel Segre, Segre, Gavriel
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0207564

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Abstract

Giorgio Parisi's recent speculations on the concept of continuous dimension (cond-mat/0207334) are compared with Von Neumann's serious work.

Citations

• Fractal Geometry: Mathematical Foundations and Applications.

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