Configurations between geometry and combinatorics

✍ Scribed by Harald Gropp

• Book ID: 104294213
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 242 KB
• Volume: 138
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0166-218X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0166-218x(03)00271-3

✦ Synopsis

The combinatorial structure conÿguration which was already deÿned as early as 1876 is the topic of this paper. In their early years conÿgurations were regarded to be ÿnite geometrical substructures of the plane. The best example is the wrong picture of a conÿguration 103 by Kantor. However, before 1890 conÿgurations were already established as purely combinatorial structures. In the 20th century the problem of realization of conÿgurations over ÿelds and of drawing of conÿgurations in the real plane has been investigated.