Euclidean geometry, codified around 300 BCE by Euclid of Alexandria in one of the most influential textbooks in history, is based on 23 definitions, 5 postulates, and 5 axioms, or “common notions.” But as I mentioned in my recent post on hyperbolic geometry, one of the postulates, the parallel postulate, is not like the others.
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