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4-28-1817

Gauss wrote to the astronomer H. W. M. Oblers, saying, "I am becoming more and more convinced that the necessity of our (Euclidean) geometry cannot be proved, at least not by human intellect nor for the human intellect."

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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Non-Euclidean Geometry
Date: 
Monday, April 28, 1817