Ten Points on a Cubic

DOI10.1080/00029890.2023.2274240MaRDI QIDQ6189653zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Will Traves, David Wehlau

Publication date 8 February 2024

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.12058

zbMATH Keywords

cubic curvesinvariant theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Plane and space curves (14H50) Configuration theorems in linear incidence geometry (51A20)

Abstract: The 16-year old Blaise Pascal found a way to determine if 6 points lie on a conic using a straightedge. Nearly 400 years later, we develop a method that uses a straightedge to check whether 10 points lie on a plane cubic curve.

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