3.1"><h3><a href="#uid16" class="heading">The conic sections</a></h3>
<p>There is a deep connection between the geometric shapes of the circle,
the ellipse, the parabola, and the hyperbola.<span class="intersentencespace"></span> These seemingly different shapes can be obtained, geometrically speaking,
from a single object: the cone.<span class="intersentencespace"></span> We can obtain the four curves by slicing the cone at different angles,
as illustrated in <a href="01_math_fundamentals_fragment.html#fig