The study of shape, size, relative position of figures, and the properties of space. Euclid's Elements (c. 300 BCE) organized the subject axiomatically for over two thousand years; the discovery in the nineteenth century that Euclid's parallel postulate could be denied without contradiction opened non-Euclidean geometries, and later the coordinate and differential methods of Descartes and Riemann extended the subject to curved and higher-dimensional space. Geometric knowledge itself long predates Euclid's axiomatic treatment: Egyptian surveyors re-established field boundaries after the Nile's annual floods using practical rules for area and the right angle, Babylonian clay tablets record the same right-triangle relationship later called the Pythagorean theorem alongside other numerical geometry, and Chinese texts such as the Zhoubi Suanjing preserve an independent geometric derivation of that same relationship, called the gougu theorem. Euclid's achievement was to organize inherited geometric knowledge into one deductive system built from stated axioms, not to originate geometry itself.
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Central QuestionWhat can be said about space, shape and figures, and by which method, synthetic construction, coordinates, or an axiom system stated abstractly? 2 Key DebateEuclid's parallel postulate: is it a necessary truth about physical space, one Euclid himself seemed uneasy stating as an axiom, or merely one consistent choice among several equally valid geometries, as the nineteenth century's discovery of non-Euclidean geometry (Lobachevsky, Bolyai, Gauss) ultimately showed? 2 Classification
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Geometry is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures.
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Originally developed to model the physical world, geometry has applications in almost all sciences, and also in art, architecture, and other activities that are related to graphics.
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Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, to solve geometrical problems.
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the Pythagorean theorem or Pythagoras's theorem is a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry between the three sides of a right triangle.
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In the mathematical field of geometric topology, the Poincaré conjecture (UK: , US: , French: [pwɛ̃kaʁe]) is a theorem about the characterization of the 3-sphere (the hypersphere that bounds the 4-ball in four-dimensional space).
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the Hodge conjecture is a major unsolved problem in algebraic geometry and complex geometry
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In geometry, a heptadecagon, septadecagon or 17-gon is a seventeen-sided polygon.
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The field emerged in the Hellenistic world during the 3rd century BC from applications of geometry to astronomical studies.
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The subject is part of differential geometry since Lie groups are differentiable manifolds.
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Henri Brocard was a French mathematician best known for his discovery of the so-called Brocard points of a triangle.
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Zimmer's conjecture is a statement in mathematics "which has to do with the circumstances under which geometric spaces exhibit certain kinds of symmetries." It was named after the mathematician Robert Zimmer.
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In Euclidean geometry, the tangent-secant theorem describes the relation of line segments created by a secant and a tangent line with the associated circle.
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In geometry, the kissing number of a mathematical space is defined as the greatest number of non-overlapping unit spheres (i.e., o
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In geometry, a torus (pl.: tori or toruses) is a surface of revolution generated by revolving a circle in three-dimensional space
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In geometry, a dodecahedron or duodecahedron is any polyhedron with twelve flat faces.
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In geometry, an icosahedron ( or ) is a polyhedron with 20 faces.
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In geometry, a tetrahedron (pl.: tetrahedra or tetrahedrons), also known as a triangular pyramid, is a polyhedron composed of four
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A cube is a three-dimensional solid object in geometry.
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In geometry, an octahedron (pl.: octahedra or octahedrons) is any polyhedron with eight faces.
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In geometry, the truncated icosahedron is a polyhedron that can be constructed by truncating all of the regular icosahedron's vert
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In geometry, the rhombic dodecahedron is a convex polyhedron with 12 congruent rhombic faces.
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In geometry, an icosidodecahedron or pentagonal gyrobirotunda is a polyhedron with twenty (icosi-) triangular faces and twelve (do
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Miquel's theorem is a result in geometry, named after Auguste Miquel, concerning the intersection of three circles, each drawn thr
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In geometry, Brianchon's theorem is a theorem stating that when a hexagon is circumscribed around a conic section, its principal d
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he generalized Ptolemy's theorem, is a theorem in Euclidean geometry named after the Irish mathematician John Casey.
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In Euclidean geometry, Carnot's theorem (English: kar-NOH, French: [kaʁno]) states that the sum of the signed distances from the c
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In geometry, given a triangle ABC and a point P on its circumcircle, the three closest points to P on lines AB, AC, and BC are col
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In geometry, Monge's theorem, named after Gaspard Monge, states that for any three circles in a plane, none of which is completely
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In Euclidean geometry, the British flag theorem says that if a point P is chosen inside a rectangle ABCD then the sum of the squar
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In geometry, the Japanese theorem states that no matter how one triangulates a cyclic polygon, the sum of inradii of triangles is
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In geometry, Brahmagupta's theorem states that if a cyclic quadrilateral is orthodiagonal (that is, has diagonals that are perpend
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In geometry, Euler's rotation theorem states that, in three-dimensional space, any displacement of a rigid body such that a point
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In Euclidean geometry, Anne's theorem describes an equality of certain areas within a convex quadrilateral.
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In geometry, Clifford's theorems, named after the English geometer William Kingdon Clifford, are a sequence of theorems relating t
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In plane geometry, the Conway circle theorem states that when the sides meeting at each vertex of a triangle are extended by the l
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In geometry, the crossbar theorem states that if ray AD is between ray AC and ray AB, then ray AD intersects line segment BC.
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In geometry, the equal incircles theorem derives from a Japanese Sangaku, and pertains to the following construction: a series of
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In geometry, the five circles theorem states that, given five circles centered on a common sixth circle and intersecting each othe
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In geometry, the hinge theorem (sometimes called the open mouth theorem) states that if two sides of one triangle are congruent to
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In geometry, Hjelmslev's theorem, named after Johannes Hjelmslev, is the statement that if points P, Q, R...
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In geometry, an inscribed angle is the angle formed in the interior of a circle when two chords intersect on the circle.
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er theorem, is an important theorem in elementary geometry about the ratios of various line segments that are created if two rays
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In Euclidean geometry, the intersecting chords theorem, or just the chord theorem, is a statement that describes a relation of the
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In Euclidean geometry, the intersecting secants theorem or just secant theorem describes the relation of line segments created by
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In geometry, the Japanese theorem states that the centers of the incircles of certain triangles inside a cyclic quadrilateral are
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Pompeiu's theorem is a result of plane geometry, discovered by the Romanian mathematician Dimitrie Pompeiu.
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In geometry, the six circles theorem relates to a chain of six circles together with a triangle, such that each circle is tangent
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In geometry, the spiral of Theodorus (also called the square root spiral, Pythagorean spiral, or Pythagoras's snail) is a spiral c
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In Euclidean geometry, a translation is a geometric transformation that moves every point of a figure, shape or space by the same
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In geometry, an apeirogon (from Ancient Greek ἄπειροv apeiron 'infinite, boundless' and γωνία gonia 'angle') or infinite polygon i
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In geometry, a point at infinity or ideal point is an idealized limiting point at the "end" of each line.
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In geometry, a point reflection (also called a point inversion or central inversion) is a geometric transformation of affine space
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In plane geometry, a shear mapping is an affine transformation that displaces each point in a fixed direction by an amount proport
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In four-dimensional geometry, the spherinder, or spherical cylinder or spherical prism, is a geometric object, defined as the Cart
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In hyperbolic geometry, angle of parallelism Π ( a ) is the angle at the non-right angle vertex of a right hyperbolic triangle hav
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In Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is a rectilinear convex polygon or a quadrilateral with four right angles.
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Taxicab geometry or Manhattan geometry is geometry where the familiar Euclidean distance is ignored, and the distance between two
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In geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral.
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In geometry, the isogonal conjugate of a point P with respect to a triangle △ABC is constructed by reflecting the lines PA, PB, PC
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In geometry, the Dehn invariant is a value used to determine whether one polyhedron can be cut into pieces and reassembled ("disse
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In geometry, the neusis (νεῦσις; from Ancient Greek νεύειν (neuein) 'incline towards'; plural: νεύσεις, neuseis) is a geometric co
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In geometry, the hyperboloid model, also known as the Minkowski model after Hermann Minkowski, is a model of n-dimensional hyperbo
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In hyperbolic geometry, an ideal point, omega point or point at infinity is a well-defined point outside the hyperbolic plane or s
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Petersen-Morley theorem (Wikipedia)
Finsler-Hadwiger theorem (Wikipedia)
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adwiger theorem is a statement in Euclidean plane geometry that describes a third square derived from any two squares that share a
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Inscribed Square Problem (Wikipedia)
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e Toeplitz conjecture, is an unsolved question in geometry: Does every plane simple closed curve contain all four vertices of some
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In geometry, the Tammes problem is a problem in packing a given number of points on the surface of a sphere such that the minimum
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In geometry, a hypercube is an n-dimensional analogue of a square (n = 2) and a cube (n = 3); the special case for n = 4 is known
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In geometry, the convex hull, convex envelope or convex closure of a shape is the smallest convex set that contains it.
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In geometry, Boy's surface is an immersion of the real projective plane in three-dimensional space.
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In plane geometry, Van Aubel's theorem describes a relationship between squares constructed on the sides of a quadrilateral.
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In geometry, Routh's theorem determines the ratio of areas between a given triangle and a triangle formed by the pairwise intersec
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Pitot theorem (Wikipedia)
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The Pitot theorem in geometry states that in a tangential quadrilateral the two pairs of opposite sides have the same total length
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In geometry, Radon's theorem on convex sets, published by Johann Radon in 1921, states that:Any set of d + 2 points in Rd can be p
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Heron's formula (Wikipedia)
Cauchy's theorem (geometry) (Wikipedia)
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Cauchy's theorem is a theorem in geometry, named after Augustin Cauchy.
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one of the most important theorems in symplectic geometry.
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well-studied visibility problem in computational geometry.
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In geometry, the angle bisector theorem is concerned with the relative lengths of the two segments that a triangle's side is divid
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In geometry, Bretschneider's formula is a mathematical expression for the area of a general quadrilateral.
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Lester's theorem (Wikipedia)
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In Euclidean plane geometry, Lester's theorem states that in any scalene triangle, the two Fermat points, the nine-point center, a
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Pasch's theorem (Wikipedia)
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In geometry, Pasch's theorem, stated in 1882 by the German mathematician Moritz Pasch, is a result in plane geometry which cannot
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Delaunay Triangulation (Wikipedia)
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In computational geometry, a Delaunay triangulation or Delone triangulation of a set of points in the plane subdivides their conve
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geometry
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In mathematics Rodrigues is remembered for Rodrigues' rotation formula for vectors
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a Swiss mathematician who worked primarily in geometry
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a Treatise on Solid Geometry was published in 1863
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used synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for arithmetic
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known for Barbier's theorem on the perimeter of curves of constant width
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Möbius was the first to introduce homogeneous coordinates into projective geometry.
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His earliest mathematical work was on projective geometry; he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of conic sections at the age of 16.
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Today he is best known for Pick's theorem for determining the area of lattice polygons.
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Bretschneider worked in geometry, number theory, and history of geometry.
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Niels Fabian Helge von Koch (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈhɛ̂lɡe fɔ̌nː ˈkɔ̌kː]; 25 January 1870-11 March 1924) was a Swedish mathematician who gave his name to the famous fractal known as the Koch snowflake, one of the earliest fractal curves to be described.
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Pierre Laurent Wantzel (5 June 1814-21 May 1848) was a French mathematician who proved that several ancient geometric problems were impossible to solve using only compass and straightedge.
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Giovanni Ceva (September 1, 1647, May 13, 1734) was an Italian mathematician widely known for proving Ceva's theorem in elementary geometry.
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Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov (also Mikhail Gromov, Michael Gromov or Misha Gromov; Russian: Михаи́л Леони́дович Гро́мов; born 23 December 1943) is a Russian-French mathematician known for his work in geometry, analysis and group theory.
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Frank Morley (September 9, 1860, October 17, 1937) was a leading mathematician, known mostly for his teaching and research in the fields of algebra and geometry.
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Heinz Hopf (19 November 1894-3 June 1971) was a German mathematician who worked on the fields of dynamical systems, topology and geometry. == Early life and education == Hopf was born in Gräbschen, German Empire (now Grabiszyn, part of Wrocław, Poland), the son of Elizabeth (née Kirchner) and Wilh
View the Source Wikipedia: Jean Gaston Darboux
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Darboux made several important contributions to geometry and mathematical analysis (see, for example, linear PDEs).
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In mathematics, he wrote a commentary on Euclid's Elements and a work on applied geometry known as the Metrica.
View the Source Wikipedia: Max Dehn
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Max Wilhelm Dehn (November 13, 1878, June 27, 1952) was a German mathematician most famous for his work in geometry, topology and geometric group theory.
View the Source Kalai's 3^d Conjecture, Wikipedia
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In geometry, more specifically in polytope theory, Kalai's 3d conjecture is a conjecture on the polyhedral combinatorics of centrally symmetric polytopes, made by Gil Kalai in 1989.
View the Source Wikipedia: Real projective plane
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It is the setting for planar projective geometry, in which the relationships between objects are not considered to change under projective transformations.
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In geometry, shape excludes information about the object's position, size, orientation and chirality.
View the Source Geometric Transformation (Wikipedia)
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The study of geometry may be approached by the study of these transformations, such as in transformation geometry.
View the Source Exterior angle theorem (Wikipedia)
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This is a fundamental result in absolute geometry because its proof does not depend upon the parallel postulate.
View the Source Pappus, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Pappus is the last of the great Greek geometers
View the Source Gino Fano (1871-1952), Biography, MacTutor History of Mathematics
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whose work was mainly on projective and algebraic geometry
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Reuleaux Triangle
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Geometry Plane Geometry
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Cuboctahedron
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Geometry Solid Geometry
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Viviani's Theorem
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Geometry Plane Geometry
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Euler Brick
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Geometry Solid Geometry
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Commandino's Theorem
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Geometry Line Geometry
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Perspective
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Geometry Projective Geometry
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Line (Geometry)
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Geometry Line Geometry
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Eccentricity
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Geometry Curves
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Isometry
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Geometry Transformations
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Reflection
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Geometry Transformations
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Transformation
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Geometry Transformations
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Orthographic Projection
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Geometry Projective Geometry
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Disk
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Geometry Plane Geometry
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Euclidean Distance
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Geometry Coordinate Geometry
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Distance
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Geometry Distance
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Abscissa
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Geometry Coordinate Geometry
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Cone
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Geometry Solid Geometry
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Origin
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Geometry Coordinate Geometry
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Squircle
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Geometry Plane Geometry
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Orthocenter
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Geometry Plane Geometry
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Rodrigues' Rotation Formula
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Geometry Transformations
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Voronoi Diagram
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Geometry Computational Geometry
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: K3 Surface
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Geometry Surfaces
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Pythagorean Triple
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Geometry Plane Geometry
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Hausdorff Distance
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Geometry Distance
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Schwarz Lantern
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Geometry Solid Geometry
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Erdős-Anning Theorem
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Geometry Points
View the Source Rigid Transformation (Wikipedia)
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Euclidean transformation or Euclidean isometry) is a geometric transformation of a Euclidean space that preserves
View the Source Wikipedia: Sierpinski carpet
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The Sierpiński carpet is a plane fractal first described by Wacław Sierpiński in 1916.
View the Source Wikipedia: Menger sponge
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universal curve, Sierpiński cube, or Sierpiński sponge) is a fractal curve. It is a three-dimensional generalization of
View the Source Wikipedia: Koch snowflake
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(also known as the Koch curve, Koch star, or Koch island is a fractal curve and one of the earliest fractals to have been
View the Source Wikipedia: Apollonian gasket
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gasket, Apollonian net, or Apollonian circle packing is a fractal generated by starting with a triple of circles, each tangent to the other two, and successively
View the Source Gilbert-Pollak conjecture (Wikipedia)
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is an unproven conjecture on the ratio of lengths of Steiner trees and Euclidean minimum spanning trees for the
View the Source Penrose Tiling (Wikipedia)
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A Penrose tiling is an example of an aperiodic tiling. Here, a tiling is a covering of the plane by
View the Source Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean theorem (Wikipedia)
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Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean theorem is an original proof of the Pythagorean theorem
View the Source Crystallographic Restriction Theorem (Wikipedia)
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restriction theorem characterizes the possible orders of rotational symmetry in a lattice. In 2 or 3 dimensions, the rotational symmetries
View the Source Euler's quadrilateral theorem (Wikipedia)
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Euler's quadrilateral theorem or Euler's law on quadrilaterals, named after Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), describes
View the Source Theorem of the gnomon (Wikipedia)
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The theorem of the gnomon states that certain parallelograms occurring in a gnomon have areas of equal si
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Shoelace Formula -- from Wolfram MathWorld
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Geometry Plane Geometry
View the Source George Szekeres, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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George Szekeres was a Hungarian-born mathematician who worked for most of his life in Australia on geometry and combinatorics.
View the Source Menelaus of Alexandria, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Menelaus was one of the later Greek geometers who applied spherical geometry to astronomy. He is best known for the so-called Menelaus's theorem.
View the Source Moritz Pasch, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Moritz Pasch was a German mathematician who worked on the foundations of geometry. He found a number of assumptions in Euclid that nobody had noticed before.
View the Source Piero della Francesca, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Piero della Francesca was an Italian artist who pioneered the use of perspective in Renaissance art and went on to write several mathematical treatises.
View the Source Reinhold Baer, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Reinhold Baer 's mathematical work was wide ranging; topology, abelian groups and geometry. His most important work, however, was in group theory, on the extension problem for groups, finiteness conditions, soluble and nilpotent groups.
View the Source Stefan Cohn-Vossen, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Stefan Cohn-Vossen was a mathematician, born in what is now Poland, who is known for his collaboration with David Hilbert on a geometry book.
View the Source Tobias Mayer, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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During his time in Göttingen, he lectured on mathematics, mechanics and optics, and introduced projective methods into astronomy and geography.
View the Source Wilhelm Blaschke, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Wilhelm Blaschke was an Austrian mathematician whose research was on various aspects of geometry. He also initiated the study of topological differential geometry.
View the Source Ibn al-Haytham, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Al-Haytham is also known as Alhazen . He was an Islamic mathematician who wrote early works on optics as well as geometry and number theory.
View the Source Robert Simson, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Robert Simson was a Scottish mathematician best known for the Simson line of a triangle, even though he was not the first discoverer of it.
View the Source Benoît Mandelbrot, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Benoit Mandelbrot was largely responsible for the present interest in Fractal Geometry. He showed how Fractals can occur in many different places in both Mathematics and elsewhere in Nature.
View the Source Lazare Carnot, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Lazare Carnot is best known as a geometer. In 1803 he published Géométrie de position in which sensed magnitudes were first systematically used in geometry.
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