Chasles' theorem

Chasles' theorem

Several results in mathematics have been attributed to Michel Chasles (1793–1880) and named Chasles' theorem:

  • In kinematics, the most general rigid body displacement can be produced by a translation along a line followed (or preceded) by a rotation about that line." (Kumar)
  • In gravitation, the Newtonian gravitational attraction of a spherical shell, outside of that shell, is equivalent mathematically to the attraction of a point mass (Peirce 1855).
  • In algebraic geometry, if two pencils of curves have no curves in common, then the intersections of those curves forms another pencil of curves the degree of which can be calculated from the degrees of the initial two pencils (Weisstein).

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