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The Bottomless Night

Category : Math, References · No Comments · by Jan 2nd, 2012

Hofstadter quoting mathematician Farkas Bolyai, who warns his son with much drama not to try to prove Euclid’s fifth postulate.

  • Hofstadter, D.R., “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid”, Basic Books, ISBN: 978-0465026562, 1979, page 92.