But it has gradually appeared, by the increase of non-euclidean systems, that Geometry throws no more light upon the nature of space than Arithmetic throws upon the population of the United States.
"Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays"
Bertrand Russell
It is also not difficult, by dropping or altering some of these axioms, to obtain a more general or a different geometry, having, from the point of view of pure mathematics, the same logical coherence and the same title to respect as the more familiar euclidean geometry.
"Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays"
Bertrand Russell
Deservedly or not, Eliezer Mann was called "the Hebrew Socrates"; and many a Maskil in his study of mathematics turned for guidance to Manoah Handel of Brzeszticzka, Volhynia, author and translator of several scientific works, who rendered seven euclidean propositions into Hebrew.
"The Haskalah Movement in Russia"
Jacob S. Raisin