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Mathematical Selves and the Shaping of Mathematical Modernism: Conflicting Epistemic Ideals in the Emergence of Enumerative Geometry (1864โ1893)
For more than three decades, fierce debates raged both in private letters and across public spaces over a formula expressed in 1864 by the French geometer Michel Chasles. Proofs and refutations thereof abounded, to no avail: the formula was too useful to be abandoned by its defenders, too elusive to โฆ