Foundations of Geometry
Author: first_name: David
last_name: Hilbert
Language: English
Year: 1902

The German mathematician David Hilbert was one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th/early 20th century. Hilbert's 20 axioms were first proposed by him in 1899 in his book <em>Grundlagen der Geometrie</em> as the foundation for a modern treatment of Euclidean geometry. <br><br>

Hilbert's axiom system is constructed with six primitive notions: the three primitive terms <em>point, line</em>, and <em>plane</em>, and the three primitive relations <em>Betweenness</em> (a ternary relat