On a property in the theory of confocal conics and its analogue in the theory of confocal quadrics.

zbMath04.0393.03MaRDI QIDQ1561398

Townsend

Publication date: 1871

zbMATH Keywords

contact; confocal surfaces; directrix-sphere; surface of second order

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53A04: Curves in Euclidean and related spaces

51N20: Euclidean analytic geometry