TY - BOOK AU - Hilbert,David AU - Townsend,E.J. TI - The Foundations of Geometry AV - QA PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Geometry -- Foundations N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_axioms; Release date is 2005-12-23; Joshua Hutchinson, Roger Frank, David Starner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. Revised by Richard Tonsing; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Foundations of Geometry" by David Hilbert is a mathematical treatise published in 1899. Hilbert proposes a rigorous axiom system to rebuild Euclidean geometry from the ground up, using twenty carefully constructed assumptions. Starting with six primitive concepts—points, lines, planes, and their fundamental relationships—he systematically establishes how geometric truths can be derived through pure logic. The work revolutionizes mathematical thinking by demonstrating how geometry can be constructed from basic principles without relying on intuition or visual representation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://archive.org/details/david-hilbert.-the-foundations-of-geometry/page/n1/mode/2up UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17384 ER -