Using Elimination to Describe Cartesian Ovals

Cartesian ovals are curves in the plane that have been studied for hundreds of years. A Cartesian oval is the set of points whose distances from two fixed points called foci satisfy the property that a linear combination of these distances is a fixed constant. These ovals are a special case of what...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beverlin, Lucas P
Other Authors: James Madden
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2006
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-06122006-192002/