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Famous Curves

Click on the name of a curve below to see its history and some of its associated curves. Chose four of the curves in the first column and learn everything about them.
You can experiment with the geoGebra dynamic deskboard. The file with the suffix ggb is here or you can experiment with a virtual (Applet Java) osciloskop. The hystorical overview of curves in ancient Greece is here.



Astroid
Cardioid
Catenary
Cissoid of Diocles
Cochleoid
Conchoid
Cycloid
Devil's Curve
Fermat's Spiral
Hyperbolic Spiral
Lemniscate of Bernoulli
Lissajous Curves
Rhodonea Curves
Right Strophoid
Spiral of Archimedes
Trifolium
 Cartesian Oval
Bicorn
Folium
Folium of Descartes
Freeth's Nephroid
Frequency Curve
Hyperbola
Hypocycloid
Hypotrochoid
Involute of a Circle
Kampyle of Eudoxus
Kappa Curve
Lamé Curves
Lemniscate of Bernoulli
Limacon of Pascal
Lituus
Neile's Parabola
Nephroid
Newton's Parabolas
Parabola
Double Folium
Dürer's Shell Curves
Eight Curve
Ellipse
Epicycloid
Epitrochoid
Equiangular Spiral
 Cassinian Ovals
Circle
Conchoid of de Sluze
Cayley's Sextic
Pearls of de Sluze
Pear-shaped Quartic
Plateau Curves
Pursuit Curve
Quadratrix of Hippias
Serpentine
Sinusoidal Spirals
Spiric Sections
Straight Line
Talbot's Curve
Tractrix
Tricuspoid
Trident of Newton
Trisectrix of Maclaurin
Tschirnhaus' Cubic
Watt's Curve
Witch of Agnesi

Anyone whose browser knows what to do with Java can can investigate these curves and their associated curves in an interactive way.
Here is a list of those curves for which this facility is available
Main index Definitions of Associated Curves
History Topics Index Birthplace Maps
Mathematicians of the day Anniversaries for the year
Timelines Chronology
Societies,honours, etc Search Form
JOC/EFR May 2006

The URL of this page is:

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http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Curves/Curves.html