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Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4
Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4
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41 minutes
Released:
Dec 10, 2020
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The etymology of the term “postulate” suggests that Euclid’s axioms were once questioned. Indeed, the drawing of lines and circles can be regarded as depending on motion, which is supposedly proved impossible by Zeno’s paradoxes. Although whether these postulates correspond to ruler and compass or not is debatable, especially since Euclid seems to restrict himself … Continue reading Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4
Released:
Dec 10, 2020
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Galileo bad, Archimedes good: Galileo's bumbling attempts at determining the area of the cycloid suggests a radical new interpretation of his scientific opus. Archimedes's work on floating bodies is an example of excellent Greek science that has not been sufficiently appreciated. by Opinionated History of Mathematics