info prev up next book cdrom email home

Congruence Axioms

The five of Hilbert's Axioms which concern geometric equivalence.

See also Congruence Axioms, Continuity Axioms, Hilbert's Axioms, Incidence Axioms, Ordering Axioms, Parallel Postulate


References

Hilbert, D. The Foundations of Geometry, 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: Open Court, 1980.

Iyanaga, S. and Kawada, Y. (Eds.). ``Hilbert's System of Axioms.'' §163B in Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 544-545, 1980.




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-26