Researches on curves of the second order

Name: Researches on curves of the second order
Author: George Whitehead Hearn

by George Whitehead Hearn

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Researches on curves of the second order Also on cones and spherical conics treated analytically, in which the tangencies of Apollonius are investigated, and general geometrical constructions deduced from analysis; also several of the geometrical conclusions of M. Chasles are analytically resolved, together with many properties entirely original

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Project Gutenberg

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2005-12-01

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Public domain in the USA.

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Conic sections

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George Whitehead Hearn

1812–1851

A 19th-century mathematician with a gift for rigorous geometry, he wrote dense but ambitious studies of conic sections and partial differential equations while teaching at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

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