Caustics through the looking glass

DOI10.1007/BF03024207zbMath0547.58012MaRDI QIDQ798993

J. W. Bruce, C. G. Gibson, Peter J. Giblin

Publication date: 1984

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

plane curvescatastrophe theorycausticosculating conic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70) Catastrophe theory (58K35) Geometric optics (78A05) Differential spaces (58A40)

Related Items (4)

Envelopes of Legendre curves in the unit tangent bundle over the Euclidean plane ⋮ On Cusps of Caustics by Reflection: Billiard Variations on the Four Vertex Theorem and on Jacobi’s Last Geometric Statement ⋮ Envelopes of families of Legendre mappings in the unit tangent bundle over the Euclidean space ⋮ Smoothing of curves and surfaces

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