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This category contains definitions named for Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri.
Italian Jesuit priest, scholastic philosopher, and mathematician.
Attempted (but failed) to prove Euclid's fifth postulate by means of Reductio ad Absurdum, and in the process narrowly missed discovering a non-Euclidean geometry.
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