Timeline for Examples where adding complexity made a problem simpler
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| Nov 26, 2012 at 14:34 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by S. Carnahan♦ | ||
| Nov 25, 2012 at 9:29 | history | edited | Denis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 25, 2012 at 3:55 | comment | added | Noam D. Elkies | (That's for the plane, but similar observations hold for Euclidean, affine, and projective spaces of higher dimension.) | |
| Nov 25, 2012 at 3:54 | comment | added | Noam D. Elkies | ...and there are more symmetries: the group is sharply transitive on ordered 4-tuples of non-collinear points, while the affine group is only sharply transitive on ordered noncollinear triples, and the Euclidean group not even that. | |
| Nov 25, 2012 at 0:59 | history | answered | Denis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |