Intended as a rigorous first course, the book introduces and develops the various axioms slowly, and then, in a departure from other texts, continually illustrates the major definitions and axioms with two or three models, enabling the reader to picture the idea more clearly.
Contents: Preliminary Notions.- Incidence and Metric Geometry.- Betweenness and Elementary Figures.- Plane Separation.- Angle Measure.- Neutral Geometry.- The Theory of Parallels.- Hyperbolic Geometry.- Euclidean Geometry.- Area.- The Theory of Isometries.- Bibliography.- Index.