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Comment by yau8edq12i

1 year ago

How can you frame a paper from 1965 as "very old" when the linked article is about Grothendieck, who started his math PhD in 1950 (and presumably studied math before that)?

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rhelz  1 year ago

The very very old solution I'm adverting to is Euclid's axioms. They don't define what "point" or "line" means, they just specify some axioms about them.

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