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Im trying to go through the section of newer results in hartshornes geometry. Charles hartshorne, paul weiss, collected papers of charles sanders peirec church, alonzo, journal of symbolic logic, 1969. The course begins in chapter 1 with a critical examination of euclid s elements. I had previously taught courses in projective geometry and algebraic geometry, but this was my first time teaching euclidean geometry and. Charles hartshorne, ten ontological or modal proofs for. I assume only highschool geometry and some abstract algebra. Euclid and beyond by robin hartshorne find the length of the edge of a regular tetrahedron inscribed in a unit sphere. This particular exercise has been bugging me for a good while.