Geometry. Why do we need to study Geometry?

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1. Fareeha
   

   We need to study geometry because it has been held to be the most exquisite, perfect, paradigmatic truth available to us outside divine revelation. It is the surest, clearest way of thinking available to us. Studying geometry reveals – in some way – the deepest true essence of the physical world. The fascination with geometry seems to have been pretty much constant whenever there have been those who have enquired into the nature of the causes and functioning of theworld around us. Indeed, a concern with shapes and the regularities of things like lines, circles, triangles and squares seems to be one of the things that comes to human beings quite naturally, alongside such things as language, s*x, counting, finding better ways to kill each other, shouting at football matches, and driving the M25 at 150 kph. Most (although not all) early more-or-less primitive societies and early civilisations had some practical knowledge about geometrical objects. The amount of careful geometry and geometrical astronomy needed to build a place like Stonehenge or the architecture of complex palace compounds in early Egypt, or China, or the calendars of the Mayans and Aztecs, and so on through most other early societies, shows that some quite detailed and precise practical knowledge of geometrical objects has been widespread through most civilised human societies.

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