Euclidean geometry

What's this math concept visualized in this math poster including Euclid? It looks similar to what I've seen in algebra regarding groups and their visualization, but aren't groups much more modern

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Euclid (c. 325 BC – 265 BC) – Greek Mathematician considered the “Father of Geometry”. His textbook ‘Elements’ remained a highly influential mathematics teaching book until the late 19th Century and is one of the most widely published books in the world. It has had a lasting influence on the sciences -, especially in mathematics. […]

A summery of circle geometry rules. This abbreviation helps you remember what to look out for in a sketch before answering circle geometry questions.

"Ptolemy I. asked Euclid whether there was any shorter way to a knowledge of geometry than by study of The Elements, whereupon Euclid answered that there was no royal road to geometry." Commentary on The Elements. Proclus Diadochus (410-485). Euclidean geometry is the mathematical system attributed to the Alexandrian Greek mathematician Euclid (365-275 BC), which he described in his textbook The Elements, referred to as the most successful and influential textbook ever written. The word…

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14. Euclid (fl. c. 300 BCE in Alexandria, Egypt) was a Greek mathematician best known for his text Elements, which almost from the time of its writing, exerted a continuous and major influence on human affairs. It was the primary source of geometric and deductive reasoning, theorems, and methods at least until the advent of non-Euclidean geometry in the late 19th century. Other than the Bible, the Elements may be the most translated, published, and studied book in the Western world.

The First Six Books of The Elements of Euclid by Oliver Byrne : In which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters. Download complete PDF here