Description: Define the class of
planar incidence geometries. We use Hilbert's
axioms and adapt them to planar geometry. We use for the
incidence relation. We could have used a generic binary relation, but
using allows
us to reuse previous results. Much of what follows
is directly borrowed from Aitken, Incidence-Betweenness Geometry,
2008, http://public.csusm.edu/aitken_html/m410/betweenness.08.pdf.
The class is the class of planar incidence geometries, where a
planar incidence geometry is defined as a set of lines satisfying three
axioms. In the definition below, denotes a planar incidence
geometry, so  denotes the
union of its lines, that is, the set
of points in the plane, denotes a line, and   denote
points. Therefore, the axioms are: 1) for all pairs of (distinct)
points, there exists a unique line containing them; 2) all lines contain
at least two points; 3) there exist three non-collinear points.
(Contributed by FL, 2-Aug-2009.) |