Projective Geometry and Projective Metrics

Thebasicresultsandmethodsofprojectiveandnon-Euclideangeometryareindispensableforthegeometer，andthisbook--differentincontent，methods，andpointofviewfromtraditionaltexts--attemptstoemphasizethatfact.Resultsofspecialtheoremsarediscussedindetailonlywhentheyareneededtodevelopafeelingforthesubjectorwhentheyillustrateageneralmethod.Ontheotherhand，anunusualamountofspaceisdevotedtothediscussionofthefundamentalconceptsofdistance，motion，area，andperpendicularity.
Topicsincludetheprojectiveplane，polaritiesandconicsections，affinegeometry，projectivemetrics，andnon-Euclideanandspatialgeometry.Numerousfiguresappearthroughoutthetext，whichconcludeswithabibliographyandindex.