Quippian
In mathematics, a quippian is a degree 5 class 3 contravariant of a plane cubic introduced by Cayley (1857) and discussed by Dolgachev (2012, p.157). In the same paper Cayley also introduced another similar invariant that he called the pippian, now called the Cayleyan.
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References
- Cayley, Arthur (1857), "A Memoir on Curves of the Third Order", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 147, The Royal Society: 415–446, doi:10.1098/rstl.1857.0021, ISSN 0080-4614, JSTOR 108626
- Dolgachev, Igor V. (2012), Classical Algebraic Geometry: a modern view (PDF), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-107-01765-8