Oh , you definitely didn ' t then LOL . Thanks for the clarification . If they lost to Take 3 that ' s expected tbh . <| sep |> So ? So They chose to run on principle <| sep |> If you value some survivability over one of the best peels in the game , then you ' re tanking wrong . <| sep |> I mean , if you want to ignore the year the Shield spent as the hottest act in all of wrestling , sure , your shitpost narrative makes sense . <| sep |> TIL having 2 million votes less than your opponent constitutes a landslide victory <| sep |> Apologies if my language isn ' t correct wrt to subject matter , I ' m honestly pretty lagging in the area . My understanding is that geometrists have moved on from Euclids Elements and so to simply read Elements would not prepare me adequately for later topics . Thats what I mean by contemporary . Lang does a really great job of using mappings in plane geometry to make sure that later ideas like functions make intuitive sense . My understanding is that he takes a similar approach as Coxeter in Geomtery Revisited , in that he uses a lot of , transformations , translations and mappings . He also constructs just enough plane geometry that coordinate geometry , analytic geometry and linear algebra covered later in the book also make intuitive sense . However , his section on plane geometry is very much limited to this purpose . It ' s quite terse and concise as I suspect he had only the goal in mind of introducing what was required to understand later chapters . It ' s a truly beautiful book , but not a substitute for a full course on plane geometry . What I mean by the algebraic aspects , and I know I ' m probably butchering this , but try to bear with me if you please . I mean , the greeks solved everything with their geometry . Or so I understand anyway . Completing the square is called completing the square because the greeks solved the same problem apparent in algebra by constructing a full square from smaller components . THAT is what I really want to get at . I want to be able to teach algebra to my mate the way it ' s commonly learned , but also show him how the greeks solved the same problems using geometric principles . I ' d also like to be able to do things like interpret numbers geometrically , for example show negative numbers to be a reflection through zero on the real line , as Lang uses reflection mappings to establish negative vectors beautifully . Another example would be to show how the mapping 1 establishes a negative number , which is a reflection of 1 through the zero OR a rotation of 1 WRT 0 by 180 degrees , then establish complex numbers as the mapping which when performed twice gives 1 , hence a rotation of 1 wrt 0 of 90 degrees , immediately introducing the complex plane , the value of i and 2 dimensional nature of numbers intuitively . Basically I want to give a treatise to him on numbers , algebra and geometry all together before getting into coordinate geometry , trigonometry or linear algebra , so that the concepts covered there will make more intuitive sense to him . So anything that links geometry concepts to algebraicarithmetic concepts is going to be a great boon . I ' m eyeing off Kiselev based on your recommendation , bit does it cover the algebranumber elements I was talking about ? Again , sorry if I ' m butchering it , I can only go off what I know from Lang really so I ' m not entirely sure what I ' m asking is possible .