Humbert's plane sextics of genus 5
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
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1. In 1894 Humbert encountered a twisted curve C7, of order 7 and genus 5, the locus of points of contact of tangents from a fixed point N0 to those twisted cubics which pass through five fixed points N1, N2, N3, N4, N5. The cubics of this family which touch an arbitrary plane do so at points on a conic, and it was by investigating this complex of conics that Humbert was led to study C7.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , July 1951 , pp. 483 - 495
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- Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1951
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