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There is no question what topology is and what it's about: it's about topologies (= topological spaces), and that's it.

There is also no question what (universal) algebra is and what it's about. (Among other things, it's about algebras.)

But what is geometry and what is it about? Is there a thorough and generally agreed upon definition of a geometry (= geometric structure) comparable to the unequivocal definition of a topology or an algebra?

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    Hilbert wrote that there's no difference b/w the methods of geometry and those of physics. Though physics requires time for motion, while geometry does not, dynamical systems can abstractly be defined as group or semigroup actions on a state space, so that's consistent w/ Hilbert's view.2014-12-20

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The term geometric space is sometimes used as a synonym for locally ringed space; i.e., a topological space $X$ together with a sheaf $\mathcal F$ of rings on $X$ such that the stalks of $\mathcal F$ are local rings. This suggests that geometry should be the study of geometric spaces; i.e., locally ringed spaces. Manifolds, Riemann surfaces, varieties and schemes are all examples of locally ringed spaces.

Of course, this idea ignores the fact that the locally ringed space of, for example, a manifold has little bearing much of what we do in geometry (Riemannian metrics, angles, geodesics etc.) But the same could be said of much of topology.

Another possible flaw with this is that there are examples of interesting geometric objects, such as sheaves on sites and algebraic stacks which are not examples of locally ringed spaces.

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According to Klein, geometry can be viewed as the action of a group on a space, be it smooth or finite. See this. That is, a geometry on a set $X$ is a triple $(X,G,A)$, where $G$ is a group with action $A$ on $X$.

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    @HansStricker, Arkangelskii (sp?) said topology is geometry without$a$metric.2014-12-20
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Usually, geometry consists of an underlying topological space (a manifold, for example) and some structure on this space. The structure is an analogy of some tool – such as a ruler or compass – that enables you to see more than what the topology sees. It might be something that enables you, for example, to “measure angles and distances” (Riemannian geometry), or “just to measure angles” (Conformal geometry), or “to see what are lines and what are not lines” (Projective geometry), or some other, more abstract analog of a “ruler and compass”.

From what I have learned, the Cartan geometry – which defines geometry as a principal bundle over a manifold with some Cartan connection – generalizes both Kleinian and Riemannian geometry in some sense; one book where this is explained is Sharpe: Cartan's generalization of Klein's Erlangen program.

The reason why there is not a single universal definition, unlike in topology, is the immense history of geometry (2500 years, compared to 100 years of topology).

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The answer to your question, "Is there a thorough and generally agreed upon definition of a geometry", is negative: There is no such definition. For instance, Klein's viewpoint (from 1872), was outdated by the time it was proposed, as it did not cover the emerging Riemannian geometry which was (at the time) in its infancy, as well as algebraic geometry which, at the time, was vigorously developed by the Italian school (and Cayley and many others). What's worse, Klein did not even cover Gauss' intrinsic geometry of surfaces which was, by that time, reasonable well-established.

At best, one can give an (admittedly incomplete) list several branches of mathematics, which name themselves geometry:

  1. Metric geometry.

  2. Riemannian geometry.

  3. Pseudo-Riemannian geometry.

  4. Symplectic geometry.

  5. Contact geometry.

  6. Geometry of foliations.

  7. Study of locally-homogeneous geometric structures in the sense of Ehresmann (e.g., flat projective structures, flat affine structures, etc).

  8. Incidence geometry and geometry of buildings a la J.Tits.

  9. Algebraic geometry.

  10. Noncommutative geometry of A.Connes.

Many (items 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), but definitely not not all, of these geometries, can be put under the umbrella of Cartan's definition of a geometric structure as a smooth $n$-manifold $M$ equipped with a reduction of the frame bundle to its $G$-subbundle, where $G$ is a closed subgroup of $GL(n,R)$.

(Klein's proposed definition of geometry fits as a small subfield of all of these items; it deals exclusively with, what we now call, homogeneous spaces.)

All these fields have some common features and, yet, resist a common definition. The suggested definition by Lurie, is primarily driven by algebro-geometric considerations and applications and is too broad to separate "geometry" from "topology" (the category of topological spaces will fit comfortably into Lurie's framework).

Edit. Simons Center for Geometry and Physics has a page aptly named "What is Geometry?" which has several prominent geometers, topologists and physicists trying to answer the title question (Sullivan, Donaldson, Vafa...) and (not surprisingly) failing to come up with anything close to an answer. (Although, I'd say, Fukaya comes closest.)

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J.W. Cannon also gave a definition:

"A geometry is a topological space endowed with a proper path metric."

He also gave a definition of a geometric group action:

"A [group] action is geometric [on a set S] if S is a geometry and the action is isometric, cocompact and properly discontinuous."

These definitions can be appropriate to work in geometric group theory.

See: J. W. Cannon. Geometric group theory. In Handbook of Geometric Topology. Elsevier, 2002. (In particular p. 271-272.)

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Actually I would even say that "a geometry" is the same thing as a metric space. This seems to me the most generic notion of "a geometry", of which all other particular geometries are specializations.

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    Actually, this is far from being the most general notion, e.g. It excludes symplectic geometry, algebraic geometry, etc.2014-12-19