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was utilized in the secondary-school textbook by Birkhoff and Beatley. These axioms were also modified by the
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to provide a new standard for teaching high school geometry, known as
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The non-Euclidean, hyperbolic plane: its structure and consistency
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on any line can be put into a 1:1 correspondence with the
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can be put into 1:1 correspondence with the real numbers
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Theoretical framework for planar Euclidean geometry
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Index

G. D. Birkhoff
postulates
Euclidean geometry
geometry
scale
protractor
real numbers
model
axiomatic system
School Mathematics Study Group
SMSG axioms
foundations of geometry
real numbers
continuously
Euclidean geometry
Euclidean space
Foundations of geometry
Hilbert's axioms
Tarski's axioms
Birkhoff, George David
Annals of Mathematics
doi
10.2307/1968336
hdl
10338.dmlcz/147209
JSTOR
1968336
Birkhoff, George David
ISBN
978-0-8218-2101-5

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