Abel Prize 2009 as a necessitation to discussion on geometry, or

physicist versus geometers

 Yuri A. Rylov

Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences
 101-1 ,Vernadskii Ave., Moscow, 119526, Russia
 email: rylov@ipmnet.ru
 Web site: http://rsfq1.physics.sunysb.edu/~rylov/yrylov.htm
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Updated April 22, 2009

abstract

Contemporary geometers do not acknowledge nonaxomatizable geometries. This fact means that our knowledge of geometry is poor. A perfect knowledge of geometry is important for "consumers of geometry"\quad\ (physicists dealing with geometry of microcosm), because poor knowledge of geometry forces physicists to refuse from the orthodox geometrical paradigm and to use the quantum paradigm, which is a simple fitting, compensating our imperfect knowledge of geometry.

There is text of the paper in English (pdf, ps) and in Russian (ps, pdf)