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Exercises 4.4 Conic Sections

Sketch the graph of the ellipse \(\ds \frac{x^2}{9}+\frac{y^2}{16}=1\) and determine its foci. Let \(C\) be the conic which consists of all points \(P=(x,y)\) such ...
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Elementary Analytical Geometry Conic Sections treated Geometrically

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Kant on conic sections

Vol. 44, No. 5/6, SPECIAL ISSUE: Mathematics in Kant's Critical Philosophy (December 2014), pp. 719-758 (40 pages) This paper tries to make sense of Kant's scattered remarks about conic sections to ...
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Solid Geometry and Conic Sections, with Appendices on Transversals, and Harmonic Division, for the Use of Schools Elementary Geometry

THE portions of the title-pages we have above given sufficiently indicate the scope of the two works under review and the measure of acceptance they have met with. As we have already given an account ...