Extending the Pascal mysticum

DOI10.1007/S00283-012-9351-7MaRDI QIDQ384282zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alex Ryba, J. H. Conway

Publication date 27 November 2013

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-012-9351-7

zbMATH Keywords

configurations of points and linesPascal's hexagrammum mysticum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of geometry (51-03) Desarguesian and Pappian geometries (51A30)

Review text

This is a very valuable paper that streamlines -- and adds a new result to -- the bewildering number of results about configurations of points and lines related to Pascal's hexagrammum mysticum considered by \textit{G. Veronese} [R. Acc. d. Linc. (3) I., 141--142 (1877; JFM 10.0390.01)] under the name of multimysticum, who continued the work of \textit{T. P. Kirkman} [``On the complete hexagon inscribed in a conic section, The Cambridge and Dublin Math. J. 5, 185--200 (1850)].

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