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Euclid’s geometry
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~moira/mat360fall07/slides/
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Euclid’s first postulate
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More ways to express “line l passes
through point P”.
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More undefined terms
Set
Belonging to a set, being a member of a set.
Another formulation
Let it be granted that a segment may be
produced to any length in a straight line.
Definition
Concrete plane
Abstract plane
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Exercise: Define
Midpoint M of a segment AB
Triangle ABC, formed by tree noncollinear
points A, B, C
Vertices of a triangle ABC.
Define a side opposite to a vertex of a
triangle ABC.
EXERCISE
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Exercise
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Second Euclid’s postulates: Are they
equivalent?
For every segment AB and for every segment
CD there exists a unique point E such that B
is between A and E and the segment CD is
congruent to the segment BE.
Any segment can be extended indefinitely in
a line.