philh comments on Open Thread, May 19 - 25, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: philh 19 May 2014 01:17:29PM 1 point [-]

Not an expert, but Euclid made some mistakes, like using superposition to prove some theorems. I'm curious how they handle those. (e.g. I think Euclid attempted to prove side-angle-side congruence, but Hilbert had to include it as an axiom.)