Caustics through the looking glass
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Caustics through the looking glass
zbMATH Open document ID: 0547.58012
DOI: 10.1007/BF03024207
author: James William Bruce
author: C. G. Gibson
author: Peter J. Giblin
published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer
publication date: 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: This is mainly a description of results published elsewhere. It contains interesting illustrations. If light emanating from a point source P in the plane is reflected from a smooth mirror M, what does the caustic, its real and virtual part, look like? Genericity is discussed with respect to M and P. The latter question is related to conics which have 5-point contact with M. Corresponding questions in 3-space and relations to catastrophe theory are also discussed.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58K35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58A40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 78A05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57R70
zbMATH DE Number: 3872321
zbMATH Keywords: osculating conic
zbMATH Keywords: plane curves
zbMATH Keywords: caustic
zbMATH Keywords: catastrophe theory
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3872321