Book of Curves

by E. H. Lockwood and E.H. Lockwood

Book Overview

This book opens up an important field of mathematics at an elementary level, one in which the element of aesthetic pleasure, both in the shapes of the curves and in their mathematical relationships, is dominant. This book describes methods of drawing plane curves, beginning with conic sections (parabola, ellipse and hyperbola), and going on to cycloidal curves, spirals, glissettes, pedal curves, strophoids and so on. In general, 'envelope methods'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521044448
• ISBN13: 9780521044448
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.7"