Polemics in Public: Poncelet, Gergonne, Plücker, and the Duality Controversy

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Jemma Lorenat

Publication date: 21 March 2016

Published in: Science in Context (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0269889715000289

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of geometry (51-03)

Related Items (7)

PROJECTIVE DUALITY AND THE RISE OF MODERN LOGIC ⋮ Brianchon and Poncelet's joint memoir, the nine-point circle, and beyond ⋮ ``Are the \textit{genre} and the \textit{Geschlecht} one and the same number? An inquiry into Alfred Clebsch's \textit{Geschlecht} ⋮ Les théorèmes projectifs de Sturm et leur circulation ⋮ Frege on intuition and objecthood in projective geometry ⋮ Frege and the origins of model theory in nineteenth century geometry ⋮ Carnot's theory of transversals and its applications by Servois and Brianchon: the awakening of synthetic geometry in France

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