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There is a general result by Hilbert [that can be found in his book with Cohn-Vossen : "Mathematics and the imagination" 《直观几何 》] saying that, being given 3 "skew" lines in general position in $\Bbb R^3$, there is a unique (ruled) quadric that contains these lines ; it is in general an hyperboloid with one sheet ; exceptionally (as is the case here), it is a hyperbolic paraboloid. See (Equation of a regulus) and as well (Hyperboloids of one sheet, hyperbolic paraboloids, and Hilbert's famous "three skew lines").
Steiner's method of projective generation of conics
Coxeter "Introduction to Geometry." 2nd ed. pp. 253. |
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