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8/25/11

Electric Geometry

Walking in downtown Toronto yesterday I spotted a police camera hanging on a street corner. They're very easy to spot. I’ve seen them before, and thought about them before, but never considered them in this way . . .

Electricity has brought us post-Euclidean geometry.

Definitions, please . . . 
Euclidean Geometry
The ‘standard’ geometry which has been kicking around since Greek mathematician Euclid (who’d have guessed...) developed it. 
Based on a series of simple definitions such as ‘Two parallel lines will never cross,’ he develops the rest of his geometry with postulates, corollaries, definitions and other excitement, all stemming from these definitions in a logical manner only a computer or a savant can really enjoy.