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Geometry is the most perfect of the sciences. It precedes experiment and is safe above all experimentation.

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It is something to know what proof is and what it is not; and where can this be better learned than in a science [geometry] which has never had to take one footstep backward?

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Geometry is the science created to give understanding and mastery of the external relations of things; to make easy the explanation and description of such relations and the transmission of this mastery.

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No mathematical exactness without explicit proof from assumed principles — such is the motto of the modern geometer.

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Mathematics, that giant pincers of scientific logic.

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G. B. Halsted

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Born: November 25, 1853
Died: March 16, 1922 (aged 68)
Bio: George Bruce Halsted, usually cited as G. B. Halsted, was an American mathematician who explored foundations of geometry and introduced non-Euclidean geometry into the United States through his own work and his many important translations.
Known for:
  1. Synthetic Projective Geometry (1906)
  2. On the foundation and technic of arithmetic (1912)
  3. Elementary synthetic geometry (1892)

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