num_pages: 208
description: Elegant exposition of the postulation geometry of planes, including coordination of affine and projective planes. Historical background, set theory, propositional calculus, affine planes with Desargues and Pappus properties, construction of metrical planes, much more. Rigorous, lucid treatment of important area in modern mathematics. Corrected republication of the 3rd (1961) edition. Includes 56 figures.
language: English
title: A Modern View of Geometry
publisher: Dover Publications