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Simplexes and other configurations upon a rational normal curve

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

F. P. White
F. P. White
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St John's College
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The theorem that if two triangles be inscribed in a conic their six sides touch another conic is, of course, to be found in all the text-books; it is apparently due in the first place to Brianchon. The further remark, that if three triangles be inscribed in a conic the three conics obtained from them in pairs have a common tangent, is to be found in Taylor's Ancient and Modern Geometry of Conics; it was made independently by Wakeford.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 23 , Issue 8 , October 1927 , pp. 882 - 889
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1927

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* Brianchon, , Mémoire sur les lignes du second ordre, Paris, 1817, p. 35Google Scholar (reference taken from Encykl. Math. Wiss., III, C. 1, p. 35, fn. 100Google Scholar).

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The proof of the theorem on the twelve faces of three tetrads on a space cubic curve from four dimensions is indicated in Baker's, Principles of Geometry, vol. IV, 1925, p. 147.Google Scholar

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‡ The points P in S through which pass trisecant planes of the sextic curve describe a symmetroid, the 10 nodes of which are the points of intersection of S with the variety of chords of the sextic. For the four hexads we get a plane in the six-dimensional space and on it a quartic curve, through the points of which pass trisecant planes; with five hexads we get a straight line and four points of it. The symmetroid, the quartic curve and the four points are the intersections of 5, the plane and the line respectively with the variety of trisecant planes of the sextic, which is of dimension 5 and order 4.

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* The dual is a surface of order n − 1 arising as the locus of intersections of corresponding planes of two projectively related systems of primes through two lines.

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† The result, included in this for n = 3, that, for four tetrads on a cubic curve, the four quadrics touching the faces of threes have a common generator, was remarked by Mr J. H. Grace.