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Historical use of figures in geometry
I was surprised to learn from John Stillwell's comment in answer to the
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"Can the unsolvability of quintics be seen in the geometry of the icosahedron?",
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Categories of Geometry [closed]
I learn that Geometry has several categories/subfields from Wikipedia. But I am still not clear about the standards according to which they are classified.
It seems Euclidean Geometry, Affine ...