2011 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Basics of Affine Geometry
verfasst von : Jean Gallier
Erschienen in: Geometric Methods and Applications
Verlag: Springer New York
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Geometrically, curves and surfaces are usually considered to be sets of points with some special properties, living in a space consisting of “points.” Typically, one is also interested in geometric properties invariant under certain transformations, for example, translations, rotations, projections, etc. One could model the space of points as a vector space, but this is not very satisfactory for a number of reasons. One reason is that the point corresponding to the zero vector (0), called the origin, plays a special role, when there is really no reason to have a privileged origin. Another reason is that certain notions, such as parallelism, are handled in an awkward manner. But the deeper reason is that vector spaces and affine spaces really have different geometries. The geometric properties of a vector space are invariant under the group of bijective linear maps, whereas the geometric properties of an affine space are invariant under the group of bijective affine maps, and these two groups are not isomorphic. Roughly speaking, there are more affine maps than linear maps.