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1917

An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry

Derrick Norman Lehmer

Builds the projective plane from incidence and cross-ratio alone, with no coordinates, arguing that Desargues's and Pappus's theorems and the principle of duality are more fundamental than any metric structure laid on top of them.

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