Timeline for Synthetic projective definition of cubic curves
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| Apr 24, 2015 at 18:44 | vote | accept | Mike Shulman | ||
| Apr 22, 2015 at 7:32 | comment | added | Mike Shulman | @abx The description of the strophoid in the Wikipedia article involves distance, which doesn't exist in a projective plane. Is there a version of it that doesn't use distances? | |
| Apr 22, 2015 at 7:29 | history | edited | Mike Shulman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 22, 2015 at 7:09 | history | edited | Francesco Polizzi |
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| Apr 22, 2015 at 6:43 | answer | added | Francesco Polizzi | timeline score: 10 | |
| Apr 22, 2015 at 6:17 | comment | added | abx | There are many such constructions for rational (singular) curves, e.g. the strophoid, see this Wikipedia article. My intuition is that such geometric constructions will always produce rational curves, though I don't know how to justify it. | |
| Apr 22, 2015 at 5:15 | history | asked | Mike Shulman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |