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Euclidean geometry is the oldest field of mathematics. The great thinkers during all these centuries accumulated an enormous treasure of beautiful ideas and results. We take pleasure in presenting some of them in this section.
“With Archimedes and Apollonius Greek geometry reached its culminating point.” (T.Heath, 1921, p. 197)
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Ostermann, A., Wanner, G. (2012). Further Results in Euclidean Geometry. In: Geometry by Its History. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29163-0_4
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