Re: Euler vs Gauss Smackdown

alanmc95210@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
>> > Did Gauss prove the independence of the parallel postulate? I thought
>> > I read somewhere that that was done (model for non-Euclidean
geometry)
>> > later and by some less notorious mathematician.
>  That would have been Janos Bolyai -

ObSF: Poul Anderson, Operation Chaos.

Dave
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