The value of ripeness
Think of the long centuries in which attempts were made to change mercury into gold because that seemed like a very useful thing to do. These efforts failed and we found how to change mercury into gol…
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Geometry's near-miss that wasn't
The extent of Euclidean geometry's imperfections only really came to light when physicists used Riemann's geometry to set up the theories of relativity.…