Talk:Geometry

Article Checklist for "Geometry"

Workgroup category or categories	Mathematics Workgroup [Categories OK]
Article status	Stub: no more than a few sentences
Underlinked article?	Yes
Basic cleanup done?	Yes
Checklist last edited by	--AlekStos 15:55, 24 March 2007 (CDT)

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Geometry is not only about "study of the relationships between points, lines, surfaces, solids and other higher dimensional objects" since Descarte. By the 19 century - after Gauss, Riemann, Lubachevsky, and Klien - this definition would be completely anachronistic. It even more anachronistic today.--dlehavi 21:18, 3 March 2007 (CST)

I tried to do something. Feel free to improve! --AlekStos 11:17, 7 March 2007 (CST)

I don't feel that I have a good enough perspective to write this entry. Indeed if someone would ask me what geometry is the best I can do is tell them about Klein's Erlanger Programm, and describe more developments with this phylosophy in mind. Maybe thats the best that can be done...--dlehavi 19:22, 7 March 2007 (CST)

I don't have a good perspective neither... So I only attributed the 'old-fashioned' definition to the common parlance and added a technical meaning. I was just asking to overview it to ensure that the stub is more or less correct. As far as I am aware, now it is not that different from other encyclopedic formulations (to the extend our stub covers the subject, i.e. the very first definition). Of course it must be developed and to include the Erlangen Program seems not a bad idea . --AlekStos 09:32, 8 March 2007 (CST)