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by gowld
29 days ago
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Geometry pictures are absolutely not "rigorous definitions". For 1 thing, pictures of lines aren't finite in extent, and pictures of points are finite in extent. Some of Euclid's proofs are wrong, because they relied on those non-rigorous picture definitions. * Book I, Proposition 1 (constructing an equilateral triangle) * Book I, Proposition 4 (Side-Angle-Side triangle congruence). * Multiple theorems throughout the Elements rely on the visual "betweenness" of points. |
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