The Hidden Geometry of Everything
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Lincoln and Euclid
Lincoln is self-educated and learns Euclid not as a child in school because he can go to school. He's like, what does this word demonstrate mean that I'm allegedly doing in court? He sets himself to read Euclid, to read it all. And he's like, if I'm going to be a real lawyer, I got to understand like what it means to actually prove something. But you're right. It's exactly the same distinction that I'm talking about at the end of the book.
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