
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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