• 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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  • mathematics vs mathematical analysis Smooth function Digital physics Weyl's tile argument Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "Continuity and Infinitesimals"...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    pattern on the tile we have p2 (more symmetry of the pattern on the tile does not change that, because of the arrangement of the tiles). The rectangle...
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    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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  • singularity theorems Riemannian Penrose inequality Penrose process Penrose tiling Penrose triangle Penrose stairs Penrose graphical notation Penrose transform...
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  • which exactly cover the sphere. Spherical tilings provide two infinite additional sets of regular tilings, the hosohedra, {2,n} with 2 vertices at the...
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    uncountability proof, which differs from the more familiar proof using his diagonal argument. Cantor introduced fundamental constructions in set theory, such as the...
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    singularity theorems Riemannian Penrose inequality Penrose process Penrose tiling Penrose triangle Penrose stairs Penrose graphical notation Penrose transform...
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    example, an element of the (2,3,7) triangle group acts on a triangular tiling of the hyperbolic plane by permuting the triangles. By a group action, the...
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    semiconductor wafer inspection, polymerization process monitoring, acoustic tiling, free-space communications and computer-generated imagery. Particle-particle...
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    painted on wood panel, they exist in other media, such as mosaics, painted tile, and cloth. Ernst Kitzinger distinguished two types: "Either they are images...
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