The Synthetic Approach: Axioms for Projective Planes
摘要
Projective geometry is developed axiomatically. Axioms for affine and projective planes are given. Duality is investigated and Desargues’ Theorem proved for projective planes that arise as planes in a projective 3-space. Pappus’ Theorem and projective planes over division rings are introduced. The last section is dedicated to proving that every projective plane where Desargues’ Theorem holds is a projective plane over a uniquely determined division ring and that this division ring is commutative if Pappus’ Theorem holds as well.