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The Hidden Geometry of Everything

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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Geometry and the Moral Content of Geometry

In the 19 fifties, there was a giant survey asking teachers of high school geometrye, hey, why are you doing this? Like, what's the point of what you're doing? The sort of moral content of geometry is, it is a kind of enforced honesty. It wasn't in him to say something that he didn't feel like he had justified,. Now, that is the euclidian habit, right there, to a t.

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