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 ...

Definition of a conic – general equation of a conic, classification with respect to the general equation of a conic, classification of conics with respect to eccentricity. Equations of conic sections ...

MR. TAYLOR's present work is by no means a second edition of his “Geometrical Conies”(1863). His object in this volume is a highly laudable one; from more than one quarter has recently come the ...

THE assertion made in the opening lines of the preface to the book now before us, that “to the great majority of mathematicians at the present time, Apollonius is nothing more than a name and his ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper, we describe the genesis of Boscovich's Sectionum Conicarum Elementa and discuss the motivations which led him to write this ...

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 ...