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Jan 13, 2014 at 15:09 comment added Will Jagy @FrancescoPolizzi, thank you. Nice looking cubic, very symmetric.
Jan 13, 2014 at 14:40 comment added Francesco Polizzi @Will: The Hesse pencil is a pencil of plane cubics such that the nine base points are also inflection points. It is given in coordinates by $$\lambda (x^3+y^3+z^3)+ \mu xyz=0.$$
Jan 12, 2014 at 0:24 vote accept Sasha Pavlov
Jan 11, 2014 at 9:57 answer added Sasha Anan'in timeline score: 3
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Jan 11, 2014 at 3:22 comment added Will Jagy There's something i didn't know either. Hessian soldiers were a prominent factor in the American Revolutionary war; never really managed to put that concept together with partial derivatives before.
Jan 11, 2014 at 2:58 comment added Sasha Pavlov Hessian matrix (second order terms in Taylor expansion) is named after him. As for Hessian pencil I believe it is standard terminology, although I was not able to find any reasonable sources to read about it.
Jan 11, 2014 at 2:47 comment added Will Jagy Amazing. Never heard of him before this. Maybe that's just me. Will people (well, people who might be able to answer your question) know what a Hesse pencil is?
Jan 11, 2014 at 2:34 comment added Sasha Pavlov en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Hesse
Jan 11, 2014 at 2:13 comment added Will Jagy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hesse and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Hasse
Jan 11, 2014 at 1:57 comment added Will Jagy Didn't Hesse write Steppenwolf and Siddharta?
Jan 11, 2014 at 1:20 history asked Sasha Pavlov CC BY-SA 3.0