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We learn from history that many concrete studies of geometric figures, such as conic sections, quadratic surfaces, elliptic quartic curves, etc., grew into algebraic geometry in modern times. Today however we have a nice basic algebraic geometry at hand; why do we not use it to study those quadratic figures more effectively than mathematicians of the Renaissance did?
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Ono, T. (1994). Algebraic Varieties. In: Variations on a Theme of Euler. The University Series in Mathematics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2326-7_3
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