Projective and Polar Spaces (original) (raw)

Here is the second edition of Projective and Polar Spaces, by Peter J. Cameron. The first edition was published as QMW Maths Notes 13 in 1991. The new LaTeX edition has much the same material but with some corrections and additions. Separate chapters are available as PDF files:

• Preface and table of contents
• 1. Projective spaces
• 2. Projective planes
• 3. Coordinatisation of projective spaces
• 4. Various topics
• 5. Buekenhout geometries
• 6. Polar spaces
• 7. Axioms for polar spaces
• 8. The Klein quadric and triality
• 9. The geometry of the Mathieu groups
• 10. Exterior powers and Clifford algebras
• References and index A related set of notes on classical groups is also available.

Peter J. Cameron
14 September 2000