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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2020 ii Paper 2 24F a Solution by
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Because is algebraically closed, the smooth quadric surface has a -point . Choose a plane not containing and project from :For a general point , the line meets the degree-two surface in and exactly one further point. Sending to that second intersection is a rational map inverse to on dense open subsets. Therefore
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