homogeneous coordinates

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In August Ferdinand Möbius
In this work he introduced homogeneous coordinates (essentially, the extension of coordinates to include a “point at infinity”) into analytic geometry and also dealt with geometric transformations, in particular projective transformations that later played an essential part in the systematic development of projective geometry. In the Lehrbuch der Statik (1837;…
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