I never got beyond calculus in school, and I’ve heard this term thrown around by smart math and science people bit have no clue what it means or why it’s special.
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When you make assumptions about space you get a geometry (literally, “earth measure”). In math, it’s really a theory of earth-measure, not literally measuring. (That’s surveying.) If you make the same assumptions Euclid did, we call that geometry Euclidean. If you make any other assumptions, it’s “other than Euclidean”.
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