Here There be Dragons in Sympletic Geometry

[jedishrfu]

An interesting article on the field of Sympletic Geometry built on a shaky foundation and current attempts to fix it:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170209-the-fight-to-fix-symplectic-geometry/

 

[jedishrfu]

Yay!

 

[Auto-Didact]

Fascinating piece on the foundations of symplectic geometry. It reminds me a lot of foundational issues in other areas of science - physics, psychology and economics to name a few.

Despite all the purported intrinsic objectivity of what is deemed to be part of the subject matter of mathematics (whatever that may be), this just goes to show how much mathematics actually is like any other human endeavour.