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On Desargues Theorem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2008

J. H. M. Wedderburn
Affiliation:
Princeton, New Jersey.
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The usual proofs of Desargues Theorem employ either metrical or analytical methods of projection from a point outside the plane; and if it is attempted to translate the analytical proof by the von Stuadt-Reye methods, the result is very long and there is trouble with coincidences. It is the object of this note to give a short geometrical proof which, in addition to the usual axioms of incidence and extension, uses only the assumption that a projectivity which leaves three points on a line unchanged also leaves all points on it unchanged. Degenerate cases are excluded as having no interest.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1944