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Un attaque passionee contre Euclide
Posted:
Mar 19, 2001 3:42 PM
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On Thu Sep 7, 2000, I wrote in Hyacinthos List:
>Some decades ago a "celebre professeur" wrote a libellus against Euclid.
>The very first sentence reads:
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> Il y un livre stupide entre tous: c'est la fameuse geometrie d'Euclide.
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>The libellus was republished in the French periodical _ L'education
>mathematique_ 51 (1948-9), pp. 136 and 158, along with thoughtful comments,
>in the column VARIETE, under the title: Un attaque passionee contre Euclide.
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>I am copying the final comment:
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>La geometrie s'est enormement etendue dans une foule de directions, mais
>les sept livres restent un monument imperissable et venerable.
>
>Antreas
The "celebre professeur" was someone known as Alain
[Les Propos d'Alain, tome 1er, no 57]
See also:
Alain: IDEES. Platon, Descartes, Hegel.
Paris: Paul Hartmann Editeur,1932.
Antreas
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