This book gives an introduction to the field of Incidence Geometry by discussing the basic
families of point-line geometries and introducing some of the mathematical techniques that are
essential for their study. The families of geometries covered in this book include among others
the generalized polygons near polygons polar spaces dual polar spaces and designs. Also the
various relationships between these geometries are investigated. Ovals and ovoids of projective
spaces are studied and some applications to particular geometries will be given. A separate
chapter introduces the necessary mathematical tools and techniques from graph theory. This
chapter itself can be regarded as a self-contained introduction to strongly regular and
distance-regular graphs. This book is essentially self-contained only assuming the knowledge
of basic notions from (linear) algebra and projective and affine geometry. Almost all theorems
are accompanied with proofs and a list of exercises with full solutions is given at the end of
the book. This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in the fields of
combinatorics and incidence geometry.
