Theory of the imaginary and abstract geometry after Arthur Cayley. Philosophical reflections of a mathematician at the Victorian epoque.

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Authors Ivahn Smadja

Publication date 23 October 2008

zbMATH Keywords

projective geometryimaginationArthur CayleyJohn Stuart Mill

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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