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Ellipse
In mathematics, an ellipse (from the Greek for absence) is the locus of points on a plane where the sum of the distances from any point on the curve to two fixed points is constant. The two fixed points are called foci (plural of focus). (…) An ellipse centred at the origin can be viewed as the image of the unit circle (…)
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