As Is the Case In the Three Mathematical Geometrys, the Narrator Here Chooses Among the Three Roads and Rivers At Town of Three Forks, the One Best Road To Productive Fruitful Lands!
“And of course once that door was opened one could hardly expect the number of contradictory systems of unshakable scientific truth to be limited to two. A German named Riemann appeared with another unshakable system of geometry which throws overboard not only Euclid’s postulate, but also the first axiom, which states that only one straight line can pass through two points. Again there is no internal contradiction, only an inconsistency with both Lobachevskian and Euclidian geometries. .. According to the Theory of Relativity, Riemann geometry best describes the world we live in. .. At Three Forks the road cuts into a narrow canyon of whitish-tan rock, past some Lewis and Clark caves. East of Butte we go up a long hard grade, cross the Continental Divide, then go down into a valley.At Three Forks the road ... “
In distance is the town of Three Forks, MT. In ZMM Chapter 22, the Narrator takes up his Chautauqua about " .... an alarmingly deep crisis in the foundations of the exact sciences ... ". As he tells us, Mathematicians had found three contradictory major mathematical geometries, of which only one of the three has fruitful/practical application to our world. As this Chautauqua ends ...... sure enough ...... exactly on cue ..... the corresponding route of travel arrives at three forks of three major rivers plus a town also named Three Forks.. As ZMM Route approaches the town of Three Forks, it crosses several channels of the Madison River, before turning South on combined Rt2 & Rt287. As for the Mathematical Geometries, our road follows one of the three forks, the Jefferson, up into rich fruitful "valleys".
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