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In other treatments of elementary geometry, using different sets of axioms, Pasch's axiom can be proved as a theorem; it is a consequence of the plane separation axiom when that is taken as one of the axioms.
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which is a statement about the order of four points on a line. However, in literature there are many instances where Pasch's axiom is referred to as Pasch's theorem. A notable instance of this is
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of the lines meeting. In projective geometry the concept of betweeness (required to define internal and external) is not valid and all lines meet (so the issue of parallel lines does not arise).
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Pasch published this axiom in 1882, and showed that Euclid's axioms were incomplete. The axiom was part of Pasch's approach to introducing the concept of order into plane geometry.
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There is no mention of internal and external intersections in the statement of the Veblen-Young axiom which is only concerned with the
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basis for Euclidean geometry. Depending upon the edition, it is numbered either II.4 or II.5. His statement is given above.
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to our line, we count an "intersection at infinity" as external.) A more informal version of the axiom is often seen:
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If a line, not passing through any vertex of a triangle, meets one side of the triangle then it meets another side.
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In Hilbert's treatment, this axiom appears in the section concerning axioms of order and is referred to as a
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It can, however, be derived from weaker axioms of plane separation taken for granted by Euclid, as shown in
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Pambuccian, Victor (2011), "The axiomatics of ordered geometry: I. Ordered incidence spaces.",
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If a line intersects two sides of a triangle, then it also intersects the third side.
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only Hilbert's axioms I.1,2,3 and II.1,2,3 are needed for this. Proof is given in
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This is taken from the Unger translation of the 10th edition of Hilbert's
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Pambuccian, Victor (2024), "Why did Euclid not need the Pasch axiom?.",
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Pasch's axiom should not be confused with the Veblen-Young axiom for
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Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries: Development and History
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Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries: Development and History
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as Euclid gave them. Its essential role was discovered by
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Projective geometry: from foundations to applications
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Foundations of Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry
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Freeman, 59:Two lines (in black) meeting a triangle side 8: 179:then it intersects precisely one other side 296: 199: 166: 78: 389: 326: 297:Veblen-Young axiom for projective geometry 674:, Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 613: 400: 398: 282: 200:A more informal version of Pasch's axiom 365: 336: 334: 318: 167:A more modern version of Pasch's axiom 127:passes through a point of the segment 111:which does not meet any of the points 652:Wylie, Jr., Clarence Raymond (1964), 418: 368:, p. 200, the Unger translation. 340: 151:are not both intersected by the line 96:be three points that do not lie on a 7: 238: 39:, which cannot be derived from the 544:(in German), Leipzig: B.G. Teubner 431:Beutelspacher & Rosenbaum 1998 378:Beutelspacher & Rosenbaum 1998 14: 644:Vorlesungen uber neuere Geometrie 480:, New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 135:, or through a point of segment 277:Pasch's axiom is distinct from 265:with the sides of the triangle 246:uses Pasch's axiom in his book 515:Greenberg, Marvin Jay (2007), 239:Hilbert's use of Pasch's axiom 1: 615:10.1016/j.exmath.2010.09.004 63:and meeting the other sides 552:The Foundations of Geometry 191:(In case the third side is 747: 670:Wylie, Jr., C.R. (2009) , 632:10.1007/s00022-024-00712-x 476:Faber, Richard L. 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Pasch's theorem
geometry
plane geometry
Euclid
postulates
Moritz Pasch

line
plane
P. Bernays
triangle
parallel
Hilbert
his axiomatic treatment
Euclidean geometry
David Hilbert
axiomatic
Pasch's theorem
Greenberg (1974
projective geometry
incidence property
Pambuccian 2024


Pasch 1912
Hilbert 1999
Beutelspacher & Rosenbaum 1998
Wylie, Jr. 1964

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