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Everything about Bitangent
Line tangent to a curve at two locations
In geometry, a bitangent to a curve C is a line L that touches C in two distinct points P and Q and that has the same direction as C at these points. That is, L is a tangent line at P and at Q. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: BitangentA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Bitangent planes of surfaces and applications to thermodynamicsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Bitange mirnoThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The fecund torus, its bitangent-circles and derived linkagesCited 26 times
- Go sideways: PseudotriangleA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Visibility graphA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A line that is tangent to a curve at two points
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The fecund torus, its bitangent-circles and derived linkages
THE GENERALIZED BITANGENT CARATHÉODORY-NEVANLINNA-PICK PROBLEM, AND $ (j,J_0)$-INNER MATRIX-VALUED FUNCTIONS
The Bitangent Sphere Problem
Families of bitangent planes of space curves and minimal non-fibration families
A note on the topology of arrangements for a smooth plane quartic and its bitangent lines
Geometry of weak-bitangent lines to quartic curves and sections on certain rational elliptic surfaces
The Bitangent Sphere Problem
Two-graphs and the Embedded Topology of Smooth Quartics and its Bitangent Lines
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Bitange mirnoPero Zlatar · 1978
- 📕Mendayung antara dua karangMohammad Hatta · 1976
- 📕Sur les cercles bitangents à la paraboleA. Durand · 1952
- 📕庞弼唐先生遗言Song Pang · 2016
- 📕The configurations of the 27 lines on a cubic surface and the 28 bitangents to a quartic curve ...L. E. Dickson · 1901
The literary werewolfCharlotte F. Otten · 2002
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