Contributions

  • Radnović, Milena - Contributor
  • SpringerLink (Online service) - Contributor

Publication

2011 - Springer Basel AG, Basel

Language

English

Word Count

73,250 words, Guess

Page Count

293 pages

Physical Format

[electronic resource] :

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCQA484 .D73 2011

Description

The goal of the book is to present, in a complete and comprehensive way, areas of current research interlacing around the Poncelet porism: dynamics of integrable billiards, algebraic geometry of hyperelliptic Jacobians, and classical projective geometry of pencils of quadrics. The most important results and ideas, classical as well as modern, connected to the Poncelet theorem are presented, together with a historical overview analyzing the classical ideas and their natural generalizations. Special attention is paid to the realization of the Griffiths and Harris programme about Poncelet-type problems and addition theorems. This programme, formulated three decades ago, is aimed to understanding the higher-dimensional analogues of Poncelet problems and the realization of the synthetic approach of higher genus addition theorems.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Frontiers in Mathematics

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