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If A Theorem Is Geometrically Obvious Why Prove It? This Was Exactly The Attitude Taken In The Eighteenth Century. The Result, In The Nineteenth Century, Was Chaos And Confusion: For Intuition, Unsupported By Logic, Habitually Assumes That Everything Is Much Nicer Behaved Than It Really Is. Good
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