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>The history of all hitherto existing geometry is the history of Euclidean Geometry.

>Point and line, angle and magnitude, fraction and line-segment, plane-figure and geometrical object, in a word, organizer and organized, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, without a revolutionary reconstitution of geometry at large, to the common ruin of mathematics.

>In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of shapes into various orders, a manifold gradation of vegetation. In ancient Rome we have the coastline of Britain and the infinite similarities of shucks of corn; in the Middle Ages, infinite self similarity within the churches and mosques of Europe; in almost all of these cases, again, subordinate gradations...


Is there any other book that conveys such a sense of revolutionary grandeur as The Fractal Geometry of Nature?

>> No.12233393

>>12233312
>Is there any other book that conveys such a sense of revolutionary grandeur

Spengler's Decline of the West.

>> No.12233861

>>12233393
Is fractal geometry the seeds of a Mighty and unborn civilization?
It’s a decent question. Taleb would probably say yes

>> No.12233866

>>12233312
Based off these excerpts you would immensely enjoy The Gutenberg Galaxy

>> No.12233870

>>12233312
I'm really proud of myself for getting the joke here.

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>> No.12233997

>>12233861
Maybe but if you want a book that changes completely your world-outlook then Spengler will do it for you.

>> No.12234133

>>12233997
I’ve read experts. It would be interesting to hear his thoughts on fractal geometry- as unique a departure from function-mathematics as infinitesimal calculus was during his time.

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Why, the original work, of course.

>The history of all hitherto existing society(2) is the history of class struggles.

>Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master(3) and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

>In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations.

>> No.12234440

>>12234154
Love him or hate him, Marx is such a fun writer