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Elementary geometry   /ˌɛləmˈɛntri dʒiˈɑmətri/   Listen
Elementary geometry

noun
1.
(mathematics) geometry based on Euclid's axioms.  Synonyms: Euclidean geometry, parabolic geometry.





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"Elementary geometry" Quotes from Famous Books



... better results obtained? That such instruction will be rendered fruitful in practical life is a fact which will be obvious to all who simply glance at the sequence of figures even without a thorough explanation, for they contain demonstratively the larger number of those axioms in elementary geometry which relate to the conditions of the plane in ...
— Froebel's Gifts • Kate Douglas Wiggin
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... by Aristotle as an instance to prove that a man may be a distinguished geometer and, at the same time, a fool in the ordinary affairs of life. He occupies an important place both in elementary geometry and in relation to two of the higher problems above mentioned. He was, so far as is known, the first compiler of a book of Elements; and he was the first to prove the important theorem of Eucl. XII. 2 that circles are to one another as the squares on their diameters, from which he further deduced ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various
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