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Affine planes: An example of research on geometric structures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2016
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At the end of the nineteenth century David Hilbert made the decisive step in the foundations of geometry (for the historical development see [1]): a road was opened to a theory of geometric structures. In spite of the fact that one spoke (and speaks still today!) strangely enough of ‘implicitly’ defining the geometrical concepts through the axioms, it became clear in the sequel that the axiom system of Hilbert constitutes an ‘explicit’ definition: not of course for ‘point’, ‘line’, etc. but of the concept ‘euclidean geometry’ (or ‘euclidean space’).
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