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Geometry arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. It was one of the two fields of pre-modern Mathematics, the other being the study of numbers.
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Deza, M.M., Deza, E. (2013). Distances in Geometry. In: Encyclopedia of Distances. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30958-8_6
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