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"Conic Sections" as a book category centers on the curves formed by intersecting a plane with a cone—circles, ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas—and the wide web of mathematics, history, applications, and pedagogy that grows from them. It includes rigorous textbooks and research monographs on analytic and projective geometry, accessible popular-science treatments that explain orbital mechanics and optics through ellipses and parabolas, historical studies of conics from Apollonius to Descartes, problem collections and classroom resources for teachers and students, and interdisciplinary works exploring conics in engineering, astronomy, art, and architecture. Titles in this category vary from elementary introductions and visualization guides to advanced proofs and computational methods, targeting readers from curious laypeople to professional mathematicians and engineers. The label can also be used metaphorically for books that explore intersecting ideas or recurring themes—curved trajectories of thought—so long as they evoke the core notions of shape, focus, symmetry, and application that define conic sections.

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