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Pseudaria

work by Euclid

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  • Euclid
    In Euclid: Other writings

    The purpose of the Pseudaria (“Fallacies”), says Proclus, was to distinguish and to warn beginners against different types of fallacies to which they might be susceptible in geometrical reasoning. According to Pappus, the Porisms (“Corollaries”), in three books, contained 171 propositions. Michel Chasles (1793–1880) conjectured that the work contained…

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