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Alex Kontorovich on the Absolute Truth of Pure Math

The Joy of x

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Euclid's Theorems

Euclid was a mathematician from around 300 b c. He's the greatest mathematical text book writer of antiquity, and maybe even of all time. And when he writes down these four, or, as you say, five basic postulates that he's going to build everything else from,. The fifth one has a very different character than the first four.

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