MR. FRANKLAND (NATURE, September 7) has raised the old problem of Bertrand's proof of the parallel-axiom by a consideration of infinite areas. This is perhaps the most subtle and the most specious of ...
The public’s view of the mathematician as a reclusive genius toiling away for years at an arcane problem is one that will not go away. The media have enthusiastically seized on this image since the ...
IT is now well known by all mathematicians that Euclid's theory of parallels is not indispensable for the construction of a self-consistent geometry, but that, on the contrary, there are three ...
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