parallel postulate

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Definition of parallel postulate in English Turkish dictionary

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euclid's parallel postulate

(Matematik) öklit paralellik beliti

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Definition of parallel postulate in English English dictionary

One of the five postulates, or axioms, of Euclid underpinning Euclidean geometry. It states that through any given point not on a line there passes exactly one line parallel to that line in the same plane. Unlike Euclid's other four postulates, it never seemed entirely self-evident, as attested by efforts to prove it through the centuries. The uniqueness of Euclidean geometry, and the absolute identification of mathematics with reality, was broken in the 19th century when Nikolay Lobachevsky and János Bolyai (1802-60) independently discovered that altering the parallel postulate resulted in perfectly consistent non-Euclidean geometries

Hyphenation

par·al·lel pos·tu·late

Turkish pronunciation

perılel päsçılıt

Pronunciation

/ˈperəˌlel ˈpäsʧələt/ /ˈpɛrəˌlɛl ˈpɑːsʧələt/