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Topic: ellipse
Definition:

  • a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
  • "the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant"

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    • Resources:

    Groups, Algorithms and Programming
    Group at the University of St. Andrews developing GAP, a free system for computational discrete algebra.
    http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/

    Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
    Glossary of terms. Material ranges from undergraduate to research level.
    http://mathworld.wolfram.com/