Re: CONWAY VS CANTOR

On Jul 6, 8:48 pm, tommy1729 <tommy1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

a SIMILAR thing happended to gauss , when he was thinking about non-euclidian geometrie

he was afraid people would rediculize him for it , calling him a crankpot and harming its reputation !!!

therefore he pretended he accepted euclidian geometrie ...

but he didnt [..]

... and he was so anxious to maintain the pretence and not be thought
a euclidophobe he asked for his Euclidean construction of a regular
17-gon (which he was the first to discover) to be carved on his
tombstone, and to the end of his days claimed it was one of his
finest achievements.

and everyone lived happily ever after. The end ..


Cheers

John R Ramsden

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