Cayleyan
In algebraic geometry, the Cayleyan is a variety associated to a hypersurface by Cayley (1844), who named it the pippian in (Cayley 1857) and also called it the Steiner–Hessian.
See also
References
- Cayley, Arthur (1844), "Mémoire sur les courbes du troisième ordre", Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées 9: 285–293, Collected Papers, I, 183–189
- Cayley, Arthur (1857), "A Memoir on Curves of the Third Order", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (The Royal Society) 147: 415–446, doi:10.1098/rstl.1857.0021, ISSN 0080-4614
- Dolgachev, Igor V. (2012), Classical Algebraic Geometry: a modern view (PDF), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-107-01765-8
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