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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| Published in: | Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications |
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| Date: | 2024 |
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Інститут математики НАН України
2024
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| Online Access: | https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/212354 |
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| Cite this: | 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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