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Euclid’s Window: a smorgasbord of geometry, history and anecdotes about famous scientists

“The discovery that mathematics is more than algorithms for calculating volumes of dirt or the magnitude of taxes is credited to a lone Greek merchant-turned-philosopher named Thales a bit more than 2,500 years ago.” From Euclid’s Window, a book by … Continue reading

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