War, captivity and mathematics
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
zbMATH Open document ID: 0971.01005
author: D. Yu. Gouzévitch
author: I. D. Gouzévitch
publication date: 2001-06-21T00:00:00Z
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A55
zbMATH DE Number: 1595604
zbMATH Keywords: projective geometry
zbMATH Keywords: Poincelet
MaRDI profile type: Publication
title: War, captivity and mathematics
published in: Istoriko-Matematicheskie Issledovaniya. Vtoraya Seriya
review text: The paper is devoted to J. V. Poncelet and his stay in Saratov where he was taken prisoner after Napoleon's invasion on Russia. The authors found an old notebook in which Poncelet wrote his first ideas on projective geometry. In the paper the notebook and published texts of Poincelet are compared and some disparities between them indicated.
reviewed by: Roman Murawski
description: scientific article