Carnot's theory of transversals and its applications by Servois and Brianchon: the awakening of synthetic geometry in France

DOI10.1007/S00407-021-00276-1zbMATH Open1484.01008OpenAlexW3169474470MaRDI QIDQ2069716FDOQ2069716

Authors: A. Del Centina 

Publication date: 21 January 2022

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-021-00276-1

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zbMATH Keywords

synthetic geometrytheory of transversals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

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