How will the geometrician explain his infinitely extended lines, or lines that may be infinitely extended?
There can be no arithmetic without an Arithmetician, no geometry without a Geometrician.
But, if this question is proposed to a geometrician, he at once begins by constructing a triangle.
Euclid, the geometrician, lived three centuries before Christ.
Garey had no more doubt of the correctness of his reasoning, than a geometrician of the truth of a theorem in Euclid.