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Poncelet Porisms and Beyond
Integrable Billiards, Hyperelliptic Jacobians and Pencils of Quadrics

By Dragovic, Vladimir

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ISBN: 3034800142 Contributors: Radnovic, Milena Publisher: Springer Verlag Published: Mar 29 2011 Pages: 293 Weight: 1.10lbs. Height: 9.25" Width: 6.25" Depth: 0.75" Language: English

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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 res...

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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.