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Contact between a Curve and its Envelope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

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This paper deals with a few of the simpler specialisations of the intersections of a plane curve and the envelope of the family to which it belongs. It follows the method adopted by Professor Chrystal in dealing with the p-discriminant of a differential equation of the first order. This method is specially applicable to definite problems; in these it is safer to work out the result than to rely on theory.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1904