Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "In geometry, Playfair's axiom is an axiom that can be used instead of the fifth postulate of Euclid (the parallel postulate):In a plane, given a line and a point not on it, at most one line parallel to the given line can be drawn through the point.It is equivalent to Euclid's parallel postulate in the context of Euclidean geometry and was named after the Scottish mathematician John Playfair."@en }
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- Playfairs_axiom comment "In geometry, Playfair's axiom is an axiom that can be used instead of the fifth postulate of Euclid (the parallel postulate):In a plane, given a line and a point not on it, at most one line parallel to the given line can be drawn through the point.It is equivalent to Euclid's parallel postulate in the context of Euclidean geometry and was named after the Scottish mathematician John Playfair.".