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By the latter half of the 18th century the problem of deducing Postulate 5 from Neutral geometry had become, in mathematical circles, notorious. The Encyclopedist Jean le Rond d’Alembert called it (1759) “le scandale des éléments de géométrie.”
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polernie. Letter to H. K. Schumacher.
lifetime. Letter to Farkas Bolyai, March 6, 1832.
it should not perish with me. Letter to H. K. Schumacher, May 17, 1831 .
such a remarkable manner. Letter to Farkas Bolyai, March 6, 1832.
Pattern for a Formal Axiomatic System. From Eves, A Survey of Geometry (Allyn and Bacon, 1972), p. 338.
The Scorpling Flugs. After Eves, op. cit., p. 340, problem 3.
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Trudeau, R.J. (2001). The Possibility of Non-Euclidean Geometry. In: The Non-Euclidean Revolution. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2102-9_5
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