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Conics and Kisses: Poetry shaped by Apollonius of Perga

Posted on 19th November 2021 by Marian Christie

I used to loathe coordinate geometry at school, mainly because we had to calculate, plot and draw the graphs by hand. My geometry notebooks were full of wobbly parabolas and ellipses that staggered uncertainly from point to point rather than flowing in one smooth, continuous curve. 

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