An Introduction to Incidence Geometry

• Main Author: De Bruyn, Bart (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2016.
• Series: Frontiers in Mathematics,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Geometry.

This book gives an introduction to the field of Incidence Geometry by discussing the basic families of point-line geometries and introducing some of the mathematical techniques that are essential for their study. The families of geometries covered in this book include among others the generalized po...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Introductory notions
• 2.Some classes of point-line geometries
• 3.Strongly regular and distance-regular graphs
• 4.Projective spaces
• 5.Generalized polygons
• 6.Near polygons
• 7.Polar spaces
• 8.Dual polar spaces
• 9.Designs.