This is the only book on the topic of geometric configurations of points and lines. It presents in detail the history of the topic, with its surges and declines

Unifies discrete and computational geometry by using forbidden patterns of points to characterize many of its problems.

Configurations can be studied from a graph-theoretical viewpoint via the so-called Levi graphs and lie at the heart of graphs, groups, surfaces, and geometries,

The philosophy of the first part of this work is to understand (and classify) Kummer surfaces by studying (16, 6) configurations. Chapter 1 is devoted to classi