Authors: Eckhard Hitzer
Over time an astonishing and sometimes confusing variety of descriptions of conic sections has been developed. This article will give a brief overview over some interesting descriptions, showing formulations in the three geometric algebras of Euclidean three space, projective geometry and the conformal model of Euclidean space. Some illustrations with Cinderella created Java applets will be given. I think a combined geometric algebra & illustration approach can motivate students to explorative learning.
Comments: 16 Pages. 8 figures, 1 table. Proc. of the Symposium Innovative Teaching of Mathematics with Geometric Algebra 2003, Nov. 20-22, 2003, RIMS, University of Kyoto, Japan, pp. 89-104 (2003).
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