Analysis and geometry, the history of space curves from Clairaut to Darboux

DOI10.1007/s00407-010-0078-6zbMath1221.01061MaRDI QIDQ540715

Jean Delcourt

Publication date: 3 June 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-010-0078-6

zbMATH Keywords

torsion; curvature; space curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

14H50: Plane and space curves

01A50: History of mathematics in the 18th century

14-03: History of algebraic geometry

53-03: History of differential geometry

53A04: Curves in Euclidean and related spaces

01A55: History of mathematics in the 19th century

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