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What Is Geometry (Andrei)
What Is Geometry (Andrei)
What Is Geometry (Andrei)
-history of Geometry
Beginning about the 6th century bce, the Greeks gathered and extended this
practical knowledge and from it generalized the abstract subject now known as
geometry, from the combination of the Greek words geo (“Earth”) and metron
(“measure”) for the measurement of the Earth.
Euclid was a great mathematician and often called the father of geometry