This book is concerned with Galois Geometry or Finite Geometry, quite a young area in Mathematics that dates back to around 1950 with the work of the celebrated Italian mathematician Beniamino Segre who studied n-dimensional projective spaces over finite fields and substructures of these spaces. Since then Finite Geometry has received more and more attention due to its close links with other areas of mathematics such as Group Theory and Algebra, as well as its many applications in Coding Theory and Cryptography.
The topics treated in this book play a key role in Finite Geometry and can serve...