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Old 10-22-2004, 02:37 PM   #57 (permalink)
daking
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axioms are invention.
proofs are invention.
theorems are discovery.

I guess apart from pythagoras's theorem as its equivalent to Eucilds 5th postulate. So that would make it an invention if viewed in that perspective.

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