The Misnamings of Playfair’s Axiom

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-64551-3_9zbMath1391.51001OpenAlexW2777274262MaRDI QIDQ4609486

Amy Ackerberg-Hastings

Publication date: 3 April 2018

Published in: Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64551-3_9

zbMATH Keywords

Euclidean geometrymathematics educationparallel postulateJohn Playfair

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of geometry (51-03)

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Cites Work

• William Ludlam: portrait of an eighteenth-century mathematician
• Analysis and synthesis in John Playfair's Elements of Geometry
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