Sewing-Machine comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 8 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 07 September 2011 12:02:16PM 2 points [-]

van den Dries, "Tame topology and o-minimal structures," Cambridge U Press 1998

develops a lot of 20th century geometry in a first order theory of real numbers. You can do enough differential geometry in this setting to do e.g. general relativity.