Euclid and His Twentieth Century Rivals
by Nathaniel Miller
2007
Number of pages: 124
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Nathaniel Miller discusses the history of diagrams in Euclidean Geometry, develops a formal system for working with them, and concludes that they can indeed be used rigorously. Miller also introduces a diagrammatic computer proof system, based on this formal system.
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