From completeness to Archimedean completeness. An essay in the foundations of Euclidean geometry
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: From completeness to Archimedean completeness. An essay in the foundations of Euclidean geometry
zbMATH Open document ID: 0952.51001
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004971123925
author: Philip Ehrlich
published in: Synthese
publication date: 1999-12-14T00:00:00Z
review text: David Hilbert introduced his axiom of completeness in order to distinguish ``ordinary analytic geometry'' from the remaining models of Archimedean Euclidean geometry. In the present essay the author considers the Archimedean complete ordered number systems introduced by Hans Hahn in the year 1907. He shows how the completeness and embedding properties for Hahn's ordered number systems can be exploited in order to obtain an understanding for models of Euclidean geometry more generally.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 51-03
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 12D15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 12J15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03B30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 51M05
zbMATH DE Number: 1322781
zbMATH Keywords: Euclidean geometry
zbMATH Keywords: Archimedean completeness
reviewed by: Hans Havlicek
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: a:1004971123925
OpenAlex ID: W163290807
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1322781