I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
Carl Friedrich GaussAbout author
- Author's profession: Mathematician
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: April 30, 1777
- Died: February 23, 1855
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