The Inverse Caustic Problem

DOI10.1080/00029890.2020.1722019MaRDI QIDQ5109351zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Norbert Hungerbühler

Publication date 11 May 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2020.1722019

zbMATH Keywords

parallel incoming light raysreflecting curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Explicit solutions, first integrals of ordinary differential equations (34A05) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99)

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