synarchy movement of empire book ii - Pierre Beaudry's Galactic ...

failing to properly derive the Platonic solids from PYTHAGOREAN
SPHERICS, had deconstructed the five solids into a projection of the
CARTESIAN INFINITE. As I have shown in the opening pages of
{LANTERNLAND}, this so-called FOURTH DIMENSION, invented by
HILBERT, with respect to the FIVE PLATONIC SOLIDS, was nothing but
an infantile exercise in what GEORG CANTOR had called a "bad infinity."
Similarly, the contribution to science by the “non-conformist” BOURBAKI
group was essentially out to make {bad trips}, TABULA RASA of the past,
and introduce psychological warfare into the domain of scientific education.
The folly of the BURBAKI program, however, was that its members
were attempting to recreate the conditions under which they believed they
could produce another BERNARD RIEMANN. But, their method prevented
them from arriving at the very objective they were trying to achieve: they
established a type of EUCLIDEAN a priori set of axioms and postulates that
defined the limits of a deductive theorem lattice consistent with what
RIEMANN himself had excluded from the program of his own 1854
habilitation dissertation. Those fools were as convinced as GEORGE W.
BUSH has been, that his failed tax cut program was going to save the United
States from the stupidity of the democrats. As Lyn demonstrated: "That
society is doomed by its own assumptions."
ANDRE WEIL, who appeared to be the most radical of the group,
chose to establish all of mathematics on A PRIORI SET THEORY, which
would provide, according to him, the "unity of all mathematics." Once the
set of axioms and postulates of SET THEORY were accepted among the
members of the group, as an AXIOMATIC ASSUMPTION, then began a
systematic collage of everything else. As NEWTON had done before them,
anything that did not fit into their model would be thrown out. WEIL wrote:
"The order in which we (Bourbaki) arranged our subjects was decided
according to a logical and rational scheme. If that does not agree with what
was done previously, well, it means that what was done previously has to be
thrown overboard." The BOURBAKI group then decided they needed six
books deriving their axiomatic ordering fanciful assumptions as follows:
I Set theory.
II Algebra.
III Topology.
IV Functions of one real variable.
V Topological vector spaces.
173