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 QIDQ6604013FDOQ6604013

Authors: Karine Chemla 

Publication date: 12 September 2024

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

zbMATH Keywords

projective geometrydivisibilitycyclotomic fieldsideality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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