Parallel lines down the centuries

The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
12/06/2019 13 min
Parallel lines down the centuries

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For 21 centuries, mathematicians worried about a fundamental assumption made by Euclid of Alexandria: that parallel lines must meet at infinity. Could geometry ‘work’ without this assumption? The answer caused mathematicians to reassess the nature of mathematics itself.



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