Misha comments on Rationality Quotes March 2012 - Less Wrong
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Wikipedia gives the acceptance of non-Euclidean geometry as a "classical case" of a paradigm shift. I suspect that there were several other paradigm shifts involved from Euclid's math to our math: for instance, coordinate geometry, or the use of number theory applied to abstract quantities as opposed to lengths of line segments.