Items for "Hilbert"

Automorphisms of Hilbert's non-desarguesian affine plane and its projective closure

Hilbert constructed an early example of a non-desarguesian plane by modifying the lines of the real plane inside an ellipse...

Keywords: Hilbert, non-desarguesian, affine plane, Projective plane, automorphism, collineation, inversion, algebraic curve, quadratic transformation