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Euclid

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    • Euclid's Elements Euclid
      • Synthetic geometry Euclid's Elements
      • Euclid's postulates Euclid's Elements
        • Parallel postulate Euclid's postulates

Euclid's Elements

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Synthetic geometry

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Euclid's Elements
A way to defined geometry without talking about coordinates, i.e. like Euclid's Elements, notably Euclid's postulates, as opposed to Descartes's Real coordinate space.

Euclid's postulates

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Euclid's Elements
Postulates are what we now call axioms.
There are 5: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Euclidean_geometry&oldid=1036511366#Axioms, the parallel postulate being the most controversial/interesting.

Parallel postulate

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Euclid's postulates

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