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

In this essay, I argue for the following theses. First, Kummer's concept of ''ideal prime factors of a complex number'' was inspired by Poncelet's introduction of ideal elements in geometry as well as by the reconceptualization that Michel Chasles put forward for them i...

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Veröffentlicht in:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Datum:2024
1. Verfasser: Chemla, Karine
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Інститут математики НАН України 2024
Online Zugang:https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/212354
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Zitieren: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. Karine Chemla. SIGMA 20 (2024), 066, 37 pages

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