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Sun, 06 Jan 2013 01:36:11 GMT

Who is this aimed at? Recreating Euclid? Then, yes, I think there are too many implicitly defined terms. Post-Euclid, who is helped by rigor? What advances are driven by rigor? The only one that springs to my mind is Gauss's correct statement of the fundamental theorem of algebra.

I'm also not convinced that Euclid's rigor mattered, but I don't know how to assess this.

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