H.S.M.

Coxeter
Projective Geometry

In Euclidean geometry, constructions are made with a ruler and compass. Projective
geometry is simpler: its constructions require only a ruler. In projective geometry
one never measures anything, instead, one relates one set of points to another by a
projectivity.
 
This classic book introduces the important concepts of the subject and provides the
logical foundations, including the famous theorems of Desargues and Pappus and a self-
contained account of von Staudt's approach to the theory of conics. The modern approach
used in this account is then utilized to deal with the simplest finite geometry that is rich
enough to illustrate all the theorems nontrivially. The book concludes by demonstrating
the connections among projective, Euclidean, and analytic geometry.
 
From the reviews of Projective Geometry:
 
...The book is written with all the grace and lucidity that characterize the author's other
writings. ... 
2nd ed. 1974. 2nd printing 2003, XII, 162 p.
 
-T. G. Room, Mathematical Reviews
 
Printed book
This is an elementary introduction to projective geometry based on the intuitive notions
Softcover of perspectivity and projectivity and, formally, on axioms essentially the same as the
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