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Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries: How They Appear

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We intend to construct these geometries using a slightly modified Hilbert’s axioms system in the same way as it is done in [7–10]. An interesting thing is related to the fact that it exists a common part for Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry, the so called Absolute Geometry. Roughly speaking, the Absolute Geometry consists in all theorems that can be thought and proved using the axiomatic system before introducing a parallelism axiom.

Omnibus ex nihilo ducendis sufficit unum.

G. W. von Leibniz

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Correspondence to Wladimir-Georges Boskoff .

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Boskoff, WG., Capozziello, S. (2020). Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries: How They Appear. In: A Mathematical Journey to Relativity. UNITEXT for Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47894-0_1

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