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Let’s start our study of curves in a very elementary way, with the curves that we learned about in school, and let’s engage in some reasoning about these curves just as we might have done when we first met them. This is all very elementary, of course, but it will set the proper tone for what follows—much less elementary material approached in a similar way.
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Clemens, C.H. (1980). Conics. In: A Scrapbook of Complex Curve Theory. The University Series in Mathematics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7000-0_1
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