An unpublished lecture by Chasles at the Sorbonne: `Considerations on the theory of conical sections', opening lecture of the higher geometry course (1847--1848)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.235zbMATH Open1497.01007OpenAlexW4387416602MaRDI QIDQ5072073FDOQ5072073

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

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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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• Mathematics in the archives: deconstructive historiography and the shaping of modern geometry (1837–1852)
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