The Misnamings of Playfair’s Axiom

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-64551-3_9zbMATH Open1391.51001OpenAlexW2777274262MaRDI QIDQ4609486FDOQ4609486

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

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