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The Geometry of Manifolds and the Perception of Space

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In our contemporary world, we see ourselves immersed in a vast universe filled with galaxies, black holes, dark matter and other aspects of our cosmological surroundings.

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Wells Jr., R.O. (2017). The Geometry of Manifolds and the Perception of Space. In: Wuppuluri, S., Ghirardi, G. (eds) Space, Time and the Limits of Human Understanding. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44418-5_19

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