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

DOI10.1007/S00407-021-00276-1MaRDI QIDQ2069716zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

zbMATH Keywords

synthetic geometrytheory of transversals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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