Euclid


Euclid's Elements
The Philosophy of Cosmic Spirituality
Il-Filosofija tal-Ispiritwalita Kozmika
Problems, Problems
Concurrent Euclid, the Unix* System, and Tunis
Bertrand Russell
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was anything so delicious in the world. After I had learned the fifth proposition, my brother told me that it was generally considered difficult, but I had found no difficulty whatsoever. This was the first time it had dawned on me that I might have some intelligence.
Bertrand Russell, Autobiography

Alain Badiou
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
Alain Badiou, The Concept of Model: An Introduction to the Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics

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