most citedFragments of a History of the Concept of Ideal. Poncelet's and Chasles's Reflections on Generality in Geometry and their Impact on Kummer's Work with Ideal Divisors

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Fragments of a History of the Concept of Ideal. Poncelet's and Chasles's Reflections on Generality in Geometry and their Impact on Kummer's Work with Ideal Divisors

Karine Chemla

In this essay, I argue for the following theses. First, Kummer's concept of ''ideal prime factors of a complex number'' was inspired by Poncelet's introduction of ideal elements in…