An unpublished lecture by Chasles at the Sorbonne: `Considerations on the theory of conical sections', opening lecture of the higher geometry course (1847--1848)

DOI10.24033/RHM.235MaRDI QIDQ5072073zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicolas Michel, Ivahn Smadja

Publication date 25 April 2022

Published in Revue d'histoire des mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.24033/rhm.235

zbMATH Keywords

conicshistory of geometrySorbonneunpublished lecture notes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of geometry (51-03)

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