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Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri was an Italian Jesuit priest, scholastic philosopher, and mathematician. He is considered the forerunner of non-Euclidean geometry.
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science · Italian Jesuit priest, philosopher and mathematician (1667–1733) · mathematician · philosopher · university teacher · chess player · also Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Saccheri
Born September 1667 · Died 25 October 1733 · Q289517
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I have made such wonderful discoveries that I am myself lost in astonishment, and it would be an irreparable loss if they remained unknown. When you read them, dear Father, you too will acknowledge it. I cannot say more now except that out of nothing I have created a new and another world. All that I have sent you hitherto is as a house of cards compared to a tower.
Geometry as a Branch of Physics
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“I have made such wonderful discoveries that I am myself lost in astonishment, and it would be an irreparable loss if they remained unknown. When you read them, dear Father, you too will acknowledge it. I cannot say more now except that out of nothing I have created a new and another world. All that I have sent you hitherto is as a house of cards compared to a tower.”
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“Geometry as a Branch of Physics”
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“conviction that we cannot found geometry completely a priori has become, if possible, still firmer,”
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Died 1733-10-25.
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Born 1667-09.
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