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Configurations defined by six lines in space of three dimensions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. A. Todd
J. A. Todd
Affiliation:
Trinity College
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The investigations which follow were originally suggested by the now classical problem of Cayley, the determination of the condition that seven lines in space, of which no two intersect, should lie on a quartic surface. This problem suggests the consideration of the linear system of quartic surfaces which pass through six given lines, and this, essentially, is the basis of all that follows.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , January 1933 , pp. 52 - 68
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1933

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