Everything that Euclid Speaks of, Does Not Exists

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Chiara Valerio     (an excerpt from the novel, Human History of Mathematics)   There is no straight line without depth, and there are no perfect circumferences. The imagination that Euclid requires—since the third century before Christ to today—of whoever reads his Elements is bigger than the one necessary to follow the stories of gods […]

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