<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477402" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>From Plane to Sphere</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They all tried.<br>They tried to free Euclid of every flaw.<br>At Bach’s time Girolamo Saccheri did<br>And Adrien-Marie Legendre later.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unconsoled, <br>Pitying himself and all mankind, <br>Farkas Bolyai came back<br>With broken mast and torn sail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He came back from the voyage<br>To the reefs of the infernal Dead Sea. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He traversed the bottomless night, <br>Devoting his life to the search for truth, <br>Trying to prove Euclid’s fifth postulate<br>And reach the parallels.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the beginning he warned his son<br>But later he encouraged, even urged him<br>To come forth with the novel idea<br>Of non-Euclidean geometry, <br>For violets react to light in early spring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And János indeed<br>Brought forward new theorems. <br>In eighteen twenty three, <br>When he was only twenty-one years old, <br>He solved the timeworn problem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He created a new universe<br>By removing points, lines and parallels<br>From the surface of the plane<br>And placing them<br>In the realm of the sphere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Hartal">Paul Hartal</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477402" data-title="From Plane to Sphere de Paul Hartal" data-description="They all tried. They tried to free Euclid of every flaw. At Bach’s time Girolamo Saccheri did And Adrien-Marie Legendre later. Unconsoled, Pitying himself and all mankind, Farkas Bolyai came back With broken mast and torn sail. He came back ..."></div> </div> </div>

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