What is Geometry?
Geometry is the field of mathematical knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. The earliest written recordsdating from Egypt and Mesopotamia about 3100 BCdemonstrate that ancient peoples had already begun to devise mathematical rules and techniques useful for surveying land areas, constructing buildings, and measuring storage containers. Beginning about the 6th century BC, the Greeks gathered and extended this practical knowledge and from it generalized the abstract subject now known as geometry, from the combination of the Greek words geo (Earth) and metron (measure) for the measurement of the Earth. The American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America contributed to the information contained in the TV portion of this report.
