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Extreme Forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

H. S. M. Coxeter*
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University of Toronto
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The two ternary quadratic forms

are said to be reciprocal (to each other) since their coefficients form inverse matrices :

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1951

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