The Cartesian ovals

DOI10.1007/S00283-021-10149-8MaRDI QIDQ6114818zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rida T. Farouki

Publication date 12 July 2023

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-021-10149-8

zbMATH Keywords

Cartesian oval

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45)

Review text

Cartesian ovals, as constructed by Descartes in 1637, are a natural generalization of conics; they are irreducible quartic algebraic curves. The author relates these curves to the gardener's construction of ellipses, to the Minkowski product of two circles (where \(\mathbb R^2\) is identified with \(\mathbb C\)) and to the refraction of spherical waves by spherical surfaces.

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