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Note on Cayley's Demonstration of Pascal's Theorem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

Thomas Muir
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The demonstration referred to is given in the Cambridge Mathematical Journal, vol. iv. pp. 18–20. It opens with the enunciation of a lemma to the effect that the intersection of the planes

the intersection of

and the intersection of

will be in the same plane if

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Proceedings 1889-90
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 17 , 1891 , pp. 18 - 22
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1891

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* Since the order of the three points is immaterial, we see that

It will be found that the second of the three determinants is got by using │a1b5c6 instead of │a1b3c4 for our multiplier and divisor in the foregoing transformation, and the third by using similarly │a3b1c2. This is one proof of their identity. Another consists in pointing out the simple fact, that to establish the identity of the first two is the same as to prove that

—a well-known identity of Bezout's, and, curiously enough, Cayley's second lemma in this very paper