By WILLIAM H. ALLEN, Secretary of the Bureau of Municipal
Research, New York City. With an Introduction by Professor
WILLIAM T. SEDGWICK, Professor of Biology in the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
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Transcribers notes
On page 30: Pythagoras fled to Megapontum has been left as printed,
though the author probably meant Metapontum.
On page 269: 100 B.C. has been left as it was printed, though it is
probably a typo for 100 A.D.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Teaching of Geometry, by David Eugene Smith
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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