We adress the problem of the reasons for the existence of 12 symmetric spaces with the exceptional Lie groups. The 1+2 cases for G2 and F4 respectively are easily explained from the octonionic nature of these groups. The 4+3+2 cases on the E6,7,8 series require the magic square of Freudenthal and, for the split case, an appeal to the supergravity chain in 5, 4 and 3 spacetime dimensions.

We study thorn forking and rosiness in the context of continuous logic. We prove that the Urysohn sphere is rosy (with respect to finitary imaginaries), providing the first example of an essentially continuous unstable theory with a nice notion of independence. In the process, we show that a real rosy theory which has weak elimination of finitary imaginaries is rosy with respect to finitary ima...

A ‘resolution’ of the interior singularity of the spherically symmetric Schwarzschild solution of the Einstein equations for the gravitational field of a point-particle is carried out entirely and solely by finitistic and algebraic means. To this end, the background differential spacetime manifold and, in extenso, Calculus-free purely algebraic (:sheaf-theoretic) conceptual and technical machin...