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Review of basic results of projective geometry: projective spaces and their transformations, duality, affine and projective hypersurfaces, plane curves, conics and quadrics.
Projective spaces. Projective transformations. Duality. The projective line. Affine and projective hypersurfaces. Affine charts and projective closure. Conics and quadrics. Plane algebraic curves and linear systems.
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Fortuna, E., Frigerio, R., Pardini, R. (2016). Theory Review. In: Projective Geometry. UNITEXT(), vol 104. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42824-6_1
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