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Ditching the Fifth Axiom - Numberphile

2015-04-10

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Featuring Dr Caleb Ashley. Abandoning "The Fifth Axiom" - Euclid's so-called Parallel Postulate - gave birth to a whole new world... the world of Hyperbolic Geometry.

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Euclid's Postulates: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/EuclidsPostulates.html

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