Sketch the graph of the ellipse \(\ds \frac{x^2}{9}+\frac{y^2}{16}=1\) and determine its foci. Let \(C\) be the conic which consists of all points \(P=(x,y)\) such ...

Sketch the graph of the ellipse \(\ds \frac{x^2}{9}+\frac{y^2}{16}=1\) and determine its foci. Let \(C\) be the conic which consists of all points \(P=(x,y)\) such ...

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Vol. 44, No. 5/6, SPECIAL ISSUE: Mathematics in Kant's Critical Philosophy (December 2014), pp. 719-758 (40 pages) This paper tries to make sense of Kant's scattered remarks about conic sections to ...