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Euclids 5th

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    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    'solved' it?

    If you could 'solve' the Parallel Postulate then we wouldn't have systems of geometry where the Parallel Postulate didn't hold that were just as consistent as Euclidean Geometry.

    As for the article itself, Euclid never presented it as a theorem or conjecture, he presented it as an axiom. He drew criticism for not trying to prove it as a theorem.


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    mrhappy42
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    I hear you

    I should have used to word 'prove' rather than 'solved' - mistake

    The link above was all over the web last June and was just wondering if anyone had heard what had happened after he 'submitted his recently published book of proofs to science academies in France and Germany for verification'.


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    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    That's the same thing in this context. I think it's baloney that some newspaper or two fell for.


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