¶ Background Nothingness
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Background Nothingness:
"When you draw the triangle on the Earth’s surface it shows how our mathematics is really pre-Euler. The triangle also demonstrates self and otherness. The spherical triangle is the first awareness: there is an inherent twoness in the triangle’s insideness and outsideness and the axis of the two poles constitute the two points of self and otherness. The background nothingness of these two points represents an area not contained by a line. Euler did not realize that there could be an area not contained by a line.
“One spherical triangle on the Earth’s surface = four triangles because that’s the only way you can define a triangle. Euler did not recognize the background nothingness of the outside triangles.”
