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I was reading a blurb on Math history with my students and the following sentence gave me a queasy feeling. “Euclid’s system of geometry dominated mathematics until the 19th century.” This is … OK. Yes, no one really defined alternate geometries until then, but, people had to work on surfaces of spheres for practical reasons— and the refined edifice we call “Euclidean Geometry”goes a way beyond what Euclid the Greek man had in mind. It feels a little “just so” to me. Like much of math history.
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