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Line geometry is not as popular these days as it was even fifty years ago. This is perhaps because many of the original problems of the subject have been solved. Algebraic geometers think of ruled surfaces as line bundles over a curve or even more abstract descriptions. Differential geometers usually worry about the extrinsic geometry of ruled surfaces—that is, how such surfaces can sit in three dimensions—their curvature, and so forth. Symplectic geometers have all but forgotten that their subject began with the study of the symmetries of line complexes.

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(2005). Line Geometry. In: Geometric Fundamentals of Robotics. Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-27274-7_6

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