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Euclidean geometry
(redirected from Euclidean plane)

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Noun1.Euclidean geometry - (mathematics) geometry based on Euclid's axiomsEuclidean geometry - (mathematics) geometry based on Euclid's axioms
math, mathematics, maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement
geometry - the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces


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After a historical introduction, he develops analytic projective geometry as an extension of the geometry of the euclidean plane, sets out the axiomatic foundation of it, and introduces a metric into it.
A drawing of a graph G is a representation of G in the Euclidean plane [[?
Just as a flat surface--like that of a sheet of paper--is a piece of the infinite mathematical surface known as the Euclidean plane, a saddle-shaped surface can be thought of as a small piece of the hyperbolic plane.
 
 
 
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