Download or read book The Foundations of Geometry written by David Hilbert and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by David Hilbert was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. David Hilbert was born on the 23rd January 1862, in a Province of Prussia. Hilbert is recognised as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry. He also formulated the theory of Hilbert spaces, one of the foundations of functional analysis.