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It is clear to everyone that the branches of a hyperbola “go off to infinity,” but these words acquire a precise meaning only in projective geometry, the science that arose in the mathematical examination of rails “converging” a long way off as they go straight to the horizon.
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Arnold, V.I. (2013). Projective Geometry. In: Itenberg, I., Kharlamov, V., Shustin, E. (eds) Real Algebraic Geometry. UNITEXT(), vol 66. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36243-9_4
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