Gardener’s Hyperbolas and the Dragged-Point Principle

DOI10.1080/00029890.2021.1982634zbMath1487.51010OpenAlexW3215243305MaRDI QIDQ5013362

P. Milici, Frédérique Plantevin, Robert J. MacG. Dawson

Publication date: 30 November 2021

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2021.1982634

zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolasdragged-point principleGardener's method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems involving a system of particles with friction (70F40) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05)

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