Abstract:A bicircular quartic can be generated in four and only four ways as the envelope of a circle which cuts a fixed circle orthogonally and whose centre moves on a fixed central conic. This fixed conic is...A bicircular quartic can be generated in four and only four ways as the envelope of a circle which cuts a fixed circle orthogonally and whose centre moves on a fixed central conic. This fixed conic is called a focal conic and the four focal conies corresponding to the four methods of generating the quartic are confocal, their foci being the double foci of the quartic.Read More
Publication Year: 1914
Publication Date: 1914-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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