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The chapter looks at the use of Plücker’s theory of singular points to examine plane curves of degrees 3 and 4. It concludes with Plücker’s proof that the 28 bitangents to a plane quartic can all be real.
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Gray, J. (2011). The Plücker Formulae. In: Worlds Out of Nothing. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-060-1_15
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