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The parallel postulate V, Euclid’s fifth postulate, seems less natural or convincing than the others. Ever since Euclid’s time, people have felt that it ought to be deducible from Euclid’s other postulates I to IV or from some logically equivalent set of axioms.
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Anglin, W.S., Lambek, J. (1995). Non-Euclidean Geometry and Hilbert’s Axioms. In: The Heritage of Thales. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0803-7_18
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