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Chapter Viii - Involution

An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry · Derrick Norman Lehmer — chapter 8 of 20 · ~125 words · public domain

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121. Fundamental theorem 122. Linear construction 123. Definition of involution of points on a line 124. Double-points in an involution 125. Desargues’s theorem concerning conics through four points 126. Degenerate conics of the system 127. Conics through four points touching a given line 128. Double correspondence 129. Steiner’s construction 130. Application of Steiner’s construction to double correspondence 131. Involution of points on a point-row of the second order. 132. Involution of rays 133. Double rays 134. Conic through a fixed point touching four lines 135. Double correspondence 136. Pencils of rays of the second order in involution 137. Theorem concerning pencils of the second order in involution 138. Involution of rays determined by a conic 139. Statement of theorem 140. Dual of the theorem PROBLEMS

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