Turtle tessellation8/13/2023 I have mentioned this subject at the end of Geodesics on the upper half-plane – parametrization, two days ago. Dedekind tessellation on the Poincaré disk Kocik from Department of Mathematics Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. It is beautifully shown in the graphics taken from web pages of prof. Instead of the flat Earth we have the Poincaré disk, and instead of turtles we have circles – all the way down. The Dedekind tessellation is a mathematical version of the flat Earth and turtles all the way down. Ross, Constraints on Variables in Syntax 1967 To this the little old lady crowed triumphantly. “But what does this second turtle stand on?” persisted James patiently. And it is this: The first turtle stands on the back of a second, far larger, turtle, who stands directly under him.” James, and that’s a very good question,” replied the little old lady, “but I have an answer to it. “If your theory is correct, madam,” he asked, “what does this turtle stand on?” Not wishing to demolish this absurd little theory by bringing to bear the masses of scientific evidence he had at his command, James decided to gently dissuade his opponent by making her see some of the inadequacies of her position. “That we live on a crust of earth which is on the back of a giant turtle,” “And what is that, madam?” Inquired James politely. I’ve got a better theory,” said the little old lady. “Your theory that the sun is the centre of the solar system, and the earth is a ball which rotates around it has a very convincing ring to it, Mr. After a lecture on cosmology and the structure of the solar system, William James was accosted by a little old lady.
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