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Is the group of translations of an affine plane always commutative?
Let $G$ be an arbitrary countably-infinite group. I claim that there is an affine plane $X$ such that $\operatorname{Trans}(X)$ contains a subgroup isomorphic to $G$.
By a back-and-forth argument one ...
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