Worlds Out of Nothing

DOI10.1007/978-1-84628-633-9MaRDI QIDQ3413666zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeremy Gray

Publication date 14 December 2006

Published in Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-633-9

zbMATH Keywords

dualityMöbiusnon-Euclidean geometryPlückerPoincaréPonceletprojective geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02) General histories, source books (01A05) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of algebraic geometry (14-03) History of geometry (51-03) General theory of linear incidence geometry and projective geometries (51A05) Möbius geometries (51B10) Synthetic treatment of fundamental manifolds in projective geometries (Grassmannians, Veronesians and their generalizations) (51M35) History of differential geometry (53-03) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

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