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Note on the Teaching of Analytical Geometries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Extract

In his very interesting article on Asymptotes in the May Gazette, Prof. Nunn points out that the mathematician often asserts that a line always meets a conic in two points which may be at infinity, and that teachers and text-books dwell too little upon the fact that the word “point” is used in widely different senses.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1926

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