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:ial intersection
¡ersecting right
i, e, qua linear
taken to be
333] DEVELOPABLE FROM THE EQUATION (a, b, C, d, e$t, l) 4 = 0. 137
or, expanding and reducing,
A { d 2 - A + d 2 ) bd + Q x 0\ d 2 }
+ B { e 2 — (df 2 + do 2 ) ea + d 2 d<?a?)
+ G {!Me - {6 2 + d 2 2 ) ad - (6\ + d 2 ) be + 6A A + d 2 ) ab}
m the quadric
+ D { A + d 2 )ad — be— 6 X Q» ab\ = 0,
which, if d u d 2 are the roots of the equation d 2 —£d+l = 0, and therefore 6 X + d 2 = £,
0,
dido = 1, and 6 2 + d 2 2 = — - 1 /, is
A ( d 2 — £ db + d 2 )
3.
+ B ( e 2 + ae + a 2 )
+ 0 (2de + ad — £ be + £ ab)
+ D ( £ ad — de — ad) = 0.
: o,
Putting .4=6, B = 9, G = f, D = — -^, this is
0.
>
9 ( a 2 + -^ ae + e 2 )
+ 6 ( d 2 — £ dd + d 2 )
+ f (£ad + 2 de + ad - £ de)
+ J g 5 - (ad — £ ad + de) = 0,
which is the before-mentioned quadric surface; hence the quadric surface and the cubic
surface intersect in the two lines
right lines, and
(d — di d = 0, e — di 2 a = 0), (d — d 2 d = 0, e — d 2 2 a = 0)
(where d 1} d 2 are the roots of the quadric equation d 2 — £ d x + 1 = 0); and they con
sequently intersect also in an excubo-quartic curve, which is the theorem required to
be proved.
juations of any
xirameter. But
Blackheath, March 26, 1864.
be written
c. v.
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