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Euclidean geometry is the oldest and historically most important example of a deductive scientific discipline. Down to modern times it has been a model of an exact science and it became the starting point for a systematic development of the foundations of geometry. This development began at the turn of the 19th century with the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry, reached its zenith in the investigations of Hilbert, and now covers a wide field of inquiry.
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Gellert, W., Gottwald, S., Hellwich, M., Kästner, H., Küstner, H. (1975). Foundations of geometry—Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry. In: Gellert, W., Gottwald, S., Hellwich, M., Kästner, H., Küstner, H. (eds) The VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6982-0_42
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