Take an appropriate cone and slice through it continuously at an angle. What do you get? A curve. Choose one of three: An ellipse, a parabola, or a hyperbola—depending on how you angled your slice. These three curves are famously known as the conics, no doubt because of their quite conical origin. Read More . . .
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