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Definition of Elementary geometry
1. Noun. (mathematics) geometry based on Euclid's axioms.
Category relationships: Math, Mathematics, Maths
Generic synonyms: Geometry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elementary Geometry
Literary usage of Elementary geometry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1901)
"10. ' Ka- bail Vocabulary.' I,ss7, Svo. II. MATHEMATICAL: 11. ' The Difficulties
of elementary geometry,' 1841, ..."
2. Lectures on Some Recent Advances in Physical Science, with a Special Lecture by Peter Guthrie Tait (1885)
"elementary geometry. BOOKS I.—V. Containing the Subjects of Euclid's first Six
Books. Following the Syllabus of the Geometrical Association. By the Rev. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The influence of Plato (429-348 BC) on elementary' geometry was greater than is
usually supposed. He found the science in a disordered state, ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1877)
"CLIFFORD, appointed for the purpose of considering the possibility of Improving
the Methods of Instruction in elementary geometry ..."
5. Geometry of Riemannian Spaces by Elie Cartan (1983)
"NORMAL, LOCALLY EUCLIDEAN RIEMANNIAN SPACES AND elementary geometry 77. In every
sufficiently small region of a normal, locally Euclidean Riemannian space, ..."
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