On Euler's synthetic demonstration of Pappus' construction of an ellipse from a pair of conjugate diameters

DOI10.12988/imf.2013.3465zbMath1287.51019MaRDI QIDQ5402051

Brian J. McCartin

Publication date: 12 March 2014

Published in: International Mathematical Forum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.12988/imf.2013.3465

zbMATH Keywords

ellipse; conic section; conjugate diameters; Euler; Pappus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

51M15: Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry

51N20: Euclidean analytic geometry

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