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

DOI10.1007/s00407-010-0078-6zbMath1221.01061OpenAlexW2076213645MaRDI 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

torsioncurvaturespace curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Plane and space curves (14H50) History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of algebraic geometry (14-03) History of differential geometry (53-03) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

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