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‘Shape’ Makes Geometry Entertaining. Really, It Does. Credit.... “Girls can’t do Euclid: can they, sir?” “The Mill on the Floss” contains one of George Eliot’s sharpest caricatures in the figure of the foul schoolmaster Stelling. About girls, he reassures his young charges: “They’ve a great deal of superficial cleverness; but they couldn’t go far into anything.” Certainly not geometry, that maker of men. Stelling embodied British peda...