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the foundations themselves. The rot was everywhere. Doubts increased about Euclidean geometry’s claim to the throne, with the pretenders from France, Russia, Hungary, and Germany brandishing their credentials. For each pictured space differently (Euclid’s surfaces were flat, the others’ differently curved), and nothing about them revealed which was the correct portrait of actual space. And there was the infinite.
The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics
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