[Buddha-l] pure land

[Stuart Lachs]

Gary Gach wrote:

"Coincidences and influences can exist although talking
of copy would be a good risk."

For two thousand years mathematicians attempted unsuccessfully to prove 
Euclid's parallel postulate.
Almost simultaneously Nicolai Ivanovitch Lobachevsky in Russia and Johann 
Bolyai, a Hungarian army officer in the Austrian army
(his father was a mathematician who knew Gauss) discovered
Non- Euclidean geometry. It is widely believed that each of these men had no 
information of the other's findings.
This was around the year 1830.

Later (1854), the German Georg Friedrich  Bernarde Riemann developed another
Non-Euclidean geometry, probably the richest of these geometries.

Stuart