5 ideas
15938 | Platonists ruin infinity, which is precisely a growing structure which is never completed [Dummett] |
13007 | Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz] |
15939 | For intuitionists it is constructed proofs (which take time) which make statements true [Dummett] |
20646 | Helmholtz used 'energy' to mathematically link heat, light, electricity and magnetism [Helmholtz, by Watson] |
20973 | All forces conserve the sum of kinetic and potential energy [Helmholtz, by Papineau] |