Word: non-euclidean
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There are still flashes of the old Mencken: "This moral reformer is a creature peculiar to relatively civilized societies; among savages he would be recognized instantly for the public enemy that he is, and disposed of out of hand." He speaks of Bolshevism and Fascism as "the new non-Euclidean theologies." Of the Catholic Church and its flock he writes jovially: "The whip it cracks over them is barbed with the fear of Hell, but the cracking is done with infinite discretion, and a fine understanding of psychology as she blows in the lower IQ brackets." But the necessities...
...Professor Coolidge started his literary career by writing "Elements of Non-Euclidean Geometry; in 1916 "Treatise on the Circle and the Sphere"; in 1924, "Geometry of the Complex Domain"; and in 1925, "Introduction to Mathematical Probability...
Mathematics 18, on the elementary theory of Differential Equations, and Mathematics 30, an introduction to partial differential equations, are new half-courses. A full course, Mathematics 29, dealing with non-Euclidean Geometry, is also offered for the first time...