Chasles and the Projective Geometry

This monograph meticulously examines the contributions of French mathematician Michel Chasles to 19^th-century geometry. Through an in-depth analysis of Chasles'' extensive body of work, the author examines six pivotal arguments which collectively reshape the foundations of geometry. Chasles introduces a novel form of polarity, termed "parabolic," to the graphic context, so expressing the metric pr...