Re: Crank Magnet

From: David McAnally (D.McAnally_at_i'm_a_gnu.uq.net.au)
Date: 12/24/04 

Date: 24 Dec 2004 00:17:54 GMT

Uncle Al <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net> writes:

>No self-consistent mathematical construct can be internally falsified,
>Euclid or Einstein. Euclid fell when his Fifth (Parallel) Postulate
>fell - Riemann, and Bolyai and Lobechevsky; then Thurston to do them
>all,

I saw one person describe the work of Bolyai and Lobachevsky as a
vindication of Euclid, on the basis that Euclid was aware enough to make
his Fifth Postulate a Postulate, and not attempt to make it a Proposition.
In other words, it vindicated Euclid because he never attempted to prove
it, but chose, instead, to assume it.

David

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