Subject: Re: [HM] Euclid and USA Politics (was: "President Garfield's Proof")
From: John Harper (John.Harper@MCS.VUW.AC.NZ)
Date: Thu Jan 27 2000 - 23:07:06 EST
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Karen Dee Michalowicz wrote:
> my country's founders had studied Euclid. "We hold these truths to
> be self evident..." Our Declaration of Independence is very Euclidean.
Was there any similar mathematical influence on Ireland? Eamon de Valera
taught mathematics in an Irish teachers' college, and he subsequently
became Ireland's first prime minister, and later its president.
John Harper, School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences,
Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
e-mail john.harper@vuw.ac.nz phone (+64)(4)463 5341 fax (+64)(4)463 5045
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