TY - BOOK AU - Shult,Ernest TI - Points and Lines: Characterizing the Classical Geometries SN - 9783642156267 AV - QA183 U1 - 512.2 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York : PB - Springer N1 - License restrictions may limit access; Scholarly & Professional; Springer N2 - Annotation; All the geometries covered in this book, including those arising from Lie-type groups, are characterized by easily understood local axioms on points and lines. The self-contained presentation proceeds step-by-step from elementary first principles UR - http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio8811230 ER -