Diagrams, tensors and geometric reasoning

DOI10.1007/S00454-009-9188-9MaRDI QIDQ2391201zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jürgen Richter-Gebert, Peter Lebmeir

Publication date 24 July 2009

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-009-9188-9

zbMATH Keywords

diagramsincidence theoremsinvariant theoryprojective geometrytensors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector and tensor algebra, theory of invariants (15A72) General theory of linear incidence geometry and projective geometries (51A05)

Review text

It has been known since a long time that tensor calculus can be used for dealing with problems of projective geometry. The explicit calculations tend to become rather involved and are rarely used in the current literature. The authors report on a method, originally developed by James Blinn, for a diagrammatic representation of tensor calculations. This approach allows to deal with geometric objects, their incidence relations and invariants in a highly intuitive way. Other geometries like Euclidean or spherical geometry can also be treated.

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