Conics

MacIlwaine, P. S. W.; Plumpton, C.

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-07012-1_2

P. S. W. MacIlwaine³ &
C. Plumpton⁴

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Conic sections, or conics, are those curves that can be obtained as sections of a double right-circular cone and a plane (see Fig. 2.1). Such a section is either (i) a circle, (ii) an ellipse, (iii) a parabola, (iv) a hyperbola, or (v) a line-pair; but apart from explaining the name ‘conic’ we shall not use this definition.

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Sutton Valence School, UK
P. S. W. MacIlwaine (Head of Mathematics)
School Examinations Department, University of London, UK
C. Plumpton (Moderator in Mathematics)

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MacIlwaine, P.S.W., Plumpton, C. (1984). Conics. In: Coordinate Geometry and Complex Numbers. Core Books in Advanced Mathematics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07012-1_2

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