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Proofs By Contradiction And Other Dangers
I believe it is David Hilbert you are thinking of, not Bertrand Russell. He found that Euclid's traditional 5 axioms needed to be 20. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_axioms
for more.
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