von Staudt`s theory of ``Würfe`` (jets) -- an irruption of algebra in pure geometry

DOI10.1007/S00407-007-0013-7MaRDI QIDQ932068zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Philippe Nabonnand

Publication date 8 July 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-007-0013-7

zbMATH Keywords

conicsprojective formsprojective geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of geometry (51-03) Projective analytic geometry (51N15)

Review text

After an exposition of the theory of conics of Steiner and von Staudt, the author gives an account of the theory of ``Würfe of von Staudt with calculus of ``Würfe, introduction of complex numbers and the diffusion of the ideas of von Staudt.

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