Conics

H. S. M. Coxeter and George Beck
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H. S. M. Coxeter: University of Toronto, Department of Mathematics

Chapter Chapter 6 in The Real Projective Plane, 1993, pp 73-91 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The study of conic sections (or briefly, conies) is said to have begun in 430 B.C., when the Athenians, suffering from a plague, appealed to the oracle at Delos and were told to double the size of Apollo’s cubical altar.

Keywords: Conjugate Point; Invariant Point; Harmonic Conjugate; Diagonal Point; Real Projective Plane (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-2734-2_6

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