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On Certain Equations to the Cubic Surface, with Extensions to Higher Space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

W. Saddler
Affiliation:
Christ Church, New Zealand.
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The Cubic Surface, as is well known, can be formulated as the locus of a point which, when joined to six given lines—one of which cuts the other five—forms planes enveloping a quadric cone.1 It might be of some interest to show how such a definition leads to one or two of the better known forms of the equation to the surface. The method of approach is by means of the Clebsch Transformation Principle in Geometry and the use of general coordinates. In particular, compound symbols and bracket factors, as developed by H. W. Turnbull2 in his works on Geometry and Invariant Algebra, have been largely used.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1934

References

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