Alfred Clebsch's ``geometrical clothing of the theory of the quintic equation

DOI10.1007/s00407-016-0180-5zbMath1360.01025MaRDI QIDQ504101

François Lê

Publication date: 25 January 2017

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-016-0180-5

zbMATH Keywords

cubic surfaces; geometrical models; icosahedron; Alfred Clebsch (1833--1872) resolvents; Jerrard form of the modular equation; quintic equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A70: Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies

11F03: Modular and automorphic functions

11-03: History of number theory

11D41: Higher degree equations; Fermat's equation

01A55: History of mathematics in the 19th century

11E99: Forms and linear algebraic groups

01A85: Historiography

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