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The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid

Euclid · 2000

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Nassim Nicholas TalebAuthor & risk analyst

We all learn geometry from textbooks based on axioms, like, say, Euclid’s Book of Elements, and tend to think that it is thanks to such learning that we today have these beautiful geometric shapes in buildings, from houses to cathedrals; to think the opposite would be anathema.

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