JACOB BREED E-DAY 2015

WHO DISCOVERED CONIC SECTIONS?

• Menaechmus

TWO FACTS ABOUT CONIC SECTIONS:

• According to tradition the idea of conic sections arose out of the exploration of the problem of "doubling the cube"
• One way to define a conic section is to specify a line in the plane, called the directrix, and a point in the plane off of the line, called the focus.

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