Fragments of a history of the concept of ideal. Poncelet's and Chasles's reflections on generality in geometry and their impact on Kummer's work with ideal divisors

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2024.066MaRDI QIDQ6604013zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Karine Chemla

Publication date 12 September 2024

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2024.066

zbMATH Keywords

cyclotomic fieldsdivisibilityidealityprojective geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

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