A Comparison of Various Kinds of Geometry

H. S. M. Coxeter and George Beck
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H. S. M. Coxeter: University of Toronto, Department of Mathematics

Chapter Chapter 1 in The Real Projective Plane, 1993, pp 1-11 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The ordinary geometry taught in school, dealing with circles, angles, parallel lines, similar triangles and so on, is called Euclidean geometry because it was first collected into a systematic account by the Greek geometer Euclid, who lived about 300 B.C. His treatise, The Elements, is one of the most famous books in the world; probably the Bible is its only rival in the number of copies made and the number of languages into which it has been translated. With a few unimportant changes it is still suitable for the instruction of the young.

Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-2734-2_1

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