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    Paul Finsler (born 11 April 1894, in Heilbronn, Germany, died 29 April 1970 in Zurich, Switzerland) was a German and Swiss mathematician. Finsler did...
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  • Cartan (1933) named Finsler manifolds after Paul Finsler, who studied this geometry in his dissertation (Finsler 1918). A Finsler manifold is a differentiable...
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  • Finsler's lemma is a mathematical result named after Paul Finsler. It states equivalent ways to express the positive definiteness of a quadratic form...
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    named after Paul Finsler and Hugo Hadwiger, who published it in 1937 as part of the same paper in which they published the Hadwiger–Finsler inequality...
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  • In mathematics, the Hadwiger–Finsler inequality is a result on the geometry of triangles in the Euclidean plane. It states that if a triangle in the plane...
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  • axiom); SAFA ("Scott’s AFA") – due to Dana Scott, FAFA ("Finsler’s AFA") – due to Paul Finsler, BAFA ("Boffa’s AFA") – due to Maurice Boffa. They essentially...
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    known for his work on analysis and number theory, and Paul Finsler known for his creation of Finsler space. Carathéodory had numerous contacts in Germany...
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  • Johann Faulhaber Gustav Fechner Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov Käte Fenchel Paul Finsler Felix Finster Bernd Fischer Hans Fitting Andreas Floer W. Frahm Wilhelm...
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  • Baumgartner Eyo Malachy Paul Bernays Andreas Blass George Boolos Bourbaki Georg Cantor Paul Cohen Richard Dedekind Paul Finsler Matthew Foreman Abraham...
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    perimeter, and the Euler characteristic. The Hadwiger–Finsler inequality, proven by Hadwiger with Paul Finsler, is an inequality relating the side lengths and...
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    was awarded a doctorate. After spending a year in Zürich working with Paul Finsler, Köthe received a fellowship to visit the University of Göttingen, where...
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  • description of the set theory of Paul Finsler. This was done at the suggestion of Fueter and Speiser in order to explain Finsler's mostly obscure ideas to other...
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  • "The Incompleteness Theorem" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 53 (4): 414. Finsler, Paul (1926). "Formale Beweise und die Entscheidbarkeit". Mathematische Zeitschrift...
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  • mathematical ontology (226–248); Herbert Breger, A restoration that failed: Paul Finsler's theory of sets (249–264); Donald A. Gillies, The Fregean revolution...
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    study of Finsler geometry, writing several books and articles on the subject. His research on Finsler geometry is continued through Tian Gang, Paul C. Yang...
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    Review 33.7/8 (November 1919), pp. 134-136, correcting an interpretation in Finsler, Homer 1914; the subject was taken up again by F.A. Wilford, "DAIMON in...
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    best known for his contributions to differential geometry, especially Finsler geometry. He taught in Munich and Prague for 32 years, publishing 54 papers...
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    (1905), "Eini Predigt von der ewig reinen Magd Maria", in Egli, Emil; Finsler, Georg; Zwingli-Verein (eds.), Huldreich Zwinglis sämtliche Werke (in German)...
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    theory of gravity. Finsler geometry has Finsler manifolds as the main object of study. This is a differential manifold with a Finsler metric, that is, a...
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  • von Escher vom Luchs, President of the Swiss Diet (1814) Johann Konrad Finsler, President of the Swiss Diet (1814) David von Wyss II, President of the...
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  • type (g, 0) by a continuity argument from the uniformisation theorem and Finsler metrics. This was also intended as a first step toward a deeper investigation...
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    renowned professional class for photography under the direction of Hans Finsler and Alfred Willimann until the summer of 1946. Amongst his fellow students...
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  • Korenblum, Kehe Zhu (2000, ISBN 978-0-387-98791-0) An Introduction to Riemann–Finsler Geometry, David Bao, Shiing-Shen Chern, Zhongmin Shen (2000, ISBN 978-1-4612-7070-6)...
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    kinds of infinitesimal metrics on manifolds, such as sub-Riemannian and Finsler metrics. The Riemannian metric is uniquely determined by the distance function;...
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    arithmetic" resulted in sensitivity to the issue as reflected by the work of Finsler and Gödel. Ultimately Gödel would "numeralize" his formulae; Gödel then...
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    class of examples of Lagrange generalized metrics irreducible to Riemann, Finsler, or Lagrange metrics." Barbilian made a contribution to the foundations...
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  • Second Landammann Franz Bernhard Meyer von Schauensee, Exterior Hans Konrad Finsler, Finance and Economy Albrecht Rengger, Interior Philipp Albert Stapfer...
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    516.3 Analytic geometries 516.37 Metric differential geometries 516.375 Finsler geometry The classification was originally enumerative, meaning that it...
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    Les espaces des paths generalises qu’on peut associer avec un espace de Finsler, Comptes rendus de l’Acad ́emie des Sciences, 206, 1538–1541 (in French)...
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    Lux Feininger, Berlin Hans Feidler, Dresden[clarification needed] Hans Finsler [de], Halle F. A. Flachslander, Berlin Johann Graf, Magdeburg Hein Gorny [de]...
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