…what the hell kind of space we live in we don't know whether it's euclidean, riemannian or lobachevskian or hamiltonian or Hilbert Space and meanwhile looming on the horizon is the jocular figure of Bucky Fuller with his synergetic geometry which is…

…abysmal chaos of Nietzsche's that we were trying to get away from. Then the formalists came on the scene, led by David Hilbert, and they demonstrated conclusively once and for all that mathematics was a matter of correct formalism just like a chess game…

…all to logic eventually, and some of whom were following Brouwer and saying it all reduces to intuition and only a few followed Hilbert Off into the formalist theory and this dispute went on for 20 30 40 years and suddenly the set theorists arrived on…