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Room P3.10, Mathematics Building
Herwig Hauser, Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna
Mini-course on Elliptic Curves:
Classical Geometry
How to define an ellipse; its foci and excentricities; the construction of osculating circles; trajectories of billiards; Kepler’s laws about planets; linkages drawing ellipses.
Session 1 of the mini course Mini-course on Elliptic Curves