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by veyron 5317 days ago
Plane geometry is woefully lacking in education nowadays. The situation is so sad that some of these questions are very similar to the geometry questions in the USAMO/IMO
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Plane geometry was, at the time, perhaps the premier formal system to be studied as such; now, we get the same concepts across using calculus (which doesn't seem to be mentioned on the exam) and set theory (which would only really take shape in the 1870s).

(The history of mathematics doesn't get so much as a mention, either, but I don't expect it to.)

This is an interesting "book" that reduces geometry to automated symbol pushing.

http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/GT.html