Definition:Geometry/Historical Note

Historical Note on Geometry

The Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt in about $450$ BCE and reported that the annual flooding of the Nile would wipe out all the boundaries between fields.

It is suggested that the discipline of geometry may have arisen there, from the need for the rulers to re-establish those boundaries subsequently.

Sources

• 1952: T. Ewan Faulkner: Projective Geometry (2nd ed.) ... (next): Chapter $1$: Introduction: The Propositions of Incidence: $1.1$: Historical Note
• 1992: Frederick W. Byron, Jr. and Robert W. Fuller: Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics ... (previous) ... (next): Volume One: Chapter $1$ Vectors in Classical Physics: $1.1$ Geometric and Algebraic Definitions of a Vector
• 1992: George F. Simmons: Calculus Gems ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text {B}.1$: The Pythagorean Theorem