FOM: "home truths"

[Josef Mattes]

I am not sure I completely understand your proposal.
Would you call the following foundational?

1.) Chow's theorem that any complex projective manifold is algebraic.
[You might say that this says something striking and basic about (an
important type of) shapes, and their relations to functions.]

2.) Goedel's result that it is possible to have closed time-like curves in
the theory of relativity. [view towards unity of human knowledge]

3.) The introduction of generalized functions (Dirac). 

4.) The concept of symmetry. Groups.

5.) The concept of a limit.

6.) The existence of exotic R^4. [surely striking, and flat space is 
the most basic shape I can think of (except for points)].

7.) Anything in applied mathematics or statistics, besides algorithms
(e.g. the concept of proability).

8.) The recent reconnection of mathematics and physics (path integral,
string theory, Seiberg-Witten, quantum cohomology, etc. etc.).

9.) Noncommutative geometry. [says striking things about the relation
between shapes and functions]

Josef Mattes