Lemniscate
In
Curves that have been called a lemniscate include three
History and examples
Lemniscate of Booth
The consideration of curves with a figure-eight shape can be traced back to
The lemniscate may be defined as an
Lemniscate of Bernoulli
In 1680, Cassini studied a family of curves, now called the Cassini oval, defined as follows: the locus of all points, the product of whose distances from two fixed points, the curves' foci, is a constant. Under very particular circumstances (when the half-distance between the points is equal to the square root of the constant) this gives rise to a lemniscate.
In 1694,
Lemniscate of Gerono
Another lemniscate, the lemniscate of Gerono or lemniscate of Huygens, is the zero set of the quartic polynomial .[12][13] Viviani's curve, a three-dimensional curve formed by intersecting a sphere with a cylinder, also has a figure eight shape, and has the lemniscate of Gerono as its planar projection.[14]
Others
Other figure-eight shaped algebraic curves include
- The Devil's curve, a curve defined by the quartic equation in which one connected component has a figure-eight shape,[15]
- Watt's curve, a figure-eight shaped curve formed by a mechanical linkage. Watt's curve is the zero set of the degree-six polynomial equation and has the lemniscate of Bernoulli as a special case.
See also
- Analemma, the figure-eight shaped curve traced by the noontime positions of the sun in the sky over the course of a year
- Infinity symbol
- Lemniscates as generalized conics
- Lorenz attractor, a three-dimensional dynamic system exhibiting a lemniscate shape
- Polynomial lemniscate, a level set of the absolute value of a complex polynomial
References
- ^ "lemniscate". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d.
- ^ MR 1483331.
- ^ ISBN 9780883855768.
- Perseus Project.
- ^ Harper, Douglas. "lemniscus". Online Etymology Dictionary.
- Perseus Project.
- Perseus Project.
- ^ ἱπποπέδη in Liddell and Scott.
- MR 0774250.
- S2CID 1448521.
- ^ Köller, Jürgen. "Acht-Kurve". www.mathematische-basteleien.de. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
- ^ Basset, Alfred Barnard (1901), "The Lemniscate of Gerono", An elementary treatise on cubic and quartic curves, Deighton, Bell, pp. 171–172.
- ISBN 9780198526759.
- ^ Costa, Luisa Rossi; Marchetti, Elena (2005), "Mathematical and Historical Investigation on Domes and Vaults", in Weber, Ralf; Amann, Matthias Albrecht (eds.), Aesthetics and architectural composition : proceedings of the Dresden International Symposium of Architecture 2004, Mammendorf: Pro Literatur, pp. 73–80.
- ISBN 9780471667001.
External links
- "Lemniscates", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press, 2001 [1994]