Alan U. Kennington
Alan U. Kennington | |
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| Nationality | Australian |
| Known for | Differential Geometry Reconstructed; discussion of "shadow" (Le Sage) theories of gravity |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics (differential geometry); physics |
Alan U. Kennington is an Australian mathematician known for his self-published, book-length manuscript Differential Geometry Reconstructed: A Unified Systematic Framework and for the mathematics and science website he has maintained since 1999. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Background
Based in Melbourne, Australia, Kennington began publishing in the 1980s with research on nonlinear partial differential equations, including work on power concavity and convexity of level sets. He later devoted himself to an extensive, continually revised manuscript, Differential Geometry Reconstructed, which aims to develop differential geometry systematically from logical and set-theoretic foundations upward. He also maintains reference resources such as chronological lists of textbooks in differential geometry and mathematical logic.
Ideas on gravity
In the science section of his website, Kennington discusses "shadow" theories of gravity of the Le Sage type, in which gravitational attraction is attributed to a flux of particles pushing bodies together: an observer feels a net downward push because the Earth "shadows" them from particles that would otherwise arrive from below. Such push-gravity models lie outside mainstream general relativity, and it is for these discussions that he is included in de Climont's directory.