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In fact, if you look at Euclid's proposition 34 in book 23, and proposition 33 in book 36, this is immediately implied. @Mark Sapir: I am quite sure that people regarded the statement obvious from the beginning of time, but we all know (and the Greeks did too) that obvious is not the same as trivial. A good version of Euclid's Elements can be found here: |
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In fact, if you look at Euclid's proposition 34 in book 2, and proposition 33 in book 3, this is immediately implied. @Mark Sapir: I am quite sure that people regarded the statement obvious from the beginning of time, but we all know (and the Greeks did too) that obvious is not the same as trivial. A good version of Euclid's Elements can be found here: |
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