Sentences with phrase «euclidean plane geometry»

In Leff's words, «Our relation to God's moral order is the triangle's relationship to the order of Euclidean plane geometry, not the mathematician's.

Not exact matches

The aforementioned proposition about the sum of the angles of any triangle is necessarily true only within the system of plane Euclidean geometry.

This feature of a space - time continuum of uniform metric structure, which is familiar because of its association with fundamental congruence theorems such as in the Euclidean geometry of a plane surface, is not unique to Euclidean geometry.

We can even specialize projective geometry in a manner parallel to the specialization that gives us Euclidean geometry, to obtain what Whitehead termed «anti-space,» and Adams «counter-space» (Adams and Wicher 1960): a space characterized by an «absolute point center,» corresponding to the «absolute plane at infinity» that lifts Euclidean geometry out of the totality of geometries contained in projective space.

To understand how convoluted, try to remember what you can of the simplest form of geometry, the euclidean, or plane, geometry taught in middle schools.

As you progress through primary and secondary education, Euclidean geometry and the study of plane geometry, are studied throughout.