Lines Without Order

DOI10.2307/2324240MaRDI QIDQ4025325zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Elena Anne Corie Marchisotto

Publication date 18 February 1993

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2324240

zbMATH Keywords

absolute geometryaxiomatizationmotion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Absolute planes in metric geometry (51F05)

Review text

The author reports on the axiomatization of absolute geometry as given by M. Pieri in 1899. Pieri constructed the geometry from two undefined concepts namely a point set and a nontrivial motion group on that set together with twenty postulates. Here the introduction of lines is considered: For different points \(x,y\) the line \(xy\) is the set of all points that are fixed under all motions that fix \(x\) and \(y\). The author comments this construction and its pedagogical value and gives a historical background on axiomatization of geometry at Pieri's time including the controverse on using motions in geometry.

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