Timeline for Varieties cut by quadrics
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| Nov 22, 2021 at 7:22 | comment | added | Maxim Leyenson | Richard -- the real question is about the projective varieties, not the affine ones (and, I assume, in a fixed projective embedding) | |
| Feb 8, 2010 at 7:29 | comment | added | Bjorn Poonen | Skolem used this trick to show that to decide the solvability of arbitrary polynomial equations in integers, it would suffice to do it for those of total degree 4: see page 3 of math.mit.edu/~poonen/papers/h10_notices.pdf . (Skolem's work was in the 1920s, which presumably predates the two-page paper you are referring to. And it wouldn't surprise me if the trick were known even before Skolem!) | |
| Feb 8, 2010 at 7:13 | history | answered | Richard Montgomery | CC BY-SA 2.5 |