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Helmholtz and Poincaré's considerations on the genesis of geometry

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1830–1930: A Century of Geometry

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    Gerhard Heinzmann

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Heinzmann, G. (1992). Helmholtz and Poincaré's considerations on the genesis of geometry. In: Boi, L., Flament, D., Salanskis, JM. (eds) 1830–1930: A Century of Geometry. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 402. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55408-4_68

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