The Hidden Geometry of Everything
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Euclidean Geometry
Lincoln tried to square the circle, which is a famously impossible classical problem of Euclidean geometry. He gave up and his law partner is like, we could tell he was kind of upset about it. 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 justification for.
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