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Published at 347 × 771 in A daredevil’s disaster

A plane intersects the double cone in four ways producing a circle,
an ellipse, a parabola, and an hyperbola.

Ashleigh is a PhD student and graduate teaching assistant at the University of Leicester. Her main mathematical interests are in number theory. She is passionate about outreach and inclusion in mathematics, volunteers as a STEM ambassador and is a representative for the Piscopia Initiative.
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