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Hilbert's Axiom System

They are a set of 20 axioms in David Hilbert's book Grundlagen der Geometrie, for a more modern treatment of Euclidean Geometry.

Hilbert's axiom system is constructed with six primitive notions: three primitive terms:

  • Point
  • Line
  • Plane

and three primitive relations:

  • Betweenness: a ternary relation linking points
  • Lies on (Containment): three binary relations - one linking points and straight lines, one linking points and planes, and one linking straight lines and planes
  • Congruence: two binary relations - one linking line segments and one linking angles, each denoted by an infix ≅.
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