Famous Curves (to be graphed)

[DavidC]

famous curves (http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Curves.html)

This is a site that has pictures of various curves on graphs and the formulas that express them.

I'm posting it in OOT rather than the math forum because it's a mixture of art and science (due to the graphical nature of the pages and brief nature of the description for each curve).

Very cool stuff. I found this after AdamL sent me something on the Babylonian number system.

Here's an example of one of the curve pages:
Limacon of Pascal (http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Limacon.html)

Enjoy,
Dave.

[J-Lo]

kinda neat, brings back memories of trig + calc from HS

[hobbsmann]

this is a picture (the Ai(x) curve) of one of my favorite functions that is a decaying exponential greater than zero and oscillatory less than zero.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/images/eps-gif/AiryAiBi_850.gif

[Brain]

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kinda neat, brings back memories of trig + calc from HS

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yeah, neat...that's, uh, not the word i would have used /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

ok thats mean, nm

[pokerdirty]

Someone said curves?

http://www.cavalcadeofwhimsy.com/swarming/cheese/lopez02.jpg