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[-] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You can basically recreate all modern maths in one book (or scroll) without any expertise outside that field, and become another Euclid (or the first Euclid, if you happen to end up earlier than him).

It did take people an embarrassing long time to figure out you can, despite it being irrational, still put pi on a number line.

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