Not that the propositions o... by Arthur Cayley, a British Mathematician

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“Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.”

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Arthur Cayley

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Name: Arthur Cayley

Nationality: British

Date of Birth: Aug 16, 1821

Date of Death: Jan 26, 1895

Profession: Mathematician

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