Ten Points on a Cubic
Algebraic Geometry
2021-05-26 v1 Commutative Algebra
Abstract
The 16-year old Blaise Pascal found a way to determine if 6 points lie on a conic using a straightedge. Nearly 400 years later, we develop a method that uses a straightedge to check whether 10 points lie on a plane cubic curve.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2105.12058,
title = {Ten Points on a Cubic},
author = {Will Traves and David Wehlau},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.12058},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
19 pages, 12 figures