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A quadric surface is the 3-dimensional generalization of a conic section. Such a surface is determined by an equation in the variables x, y, z so that each term is of second degree; for example,
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Banchoff, T., Wermer, J. (1983). Classification of Quadric Surfaces. In: Linear Algebra Through Geometry. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0161-5_19
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