Famous Curves Index

Click on the name of a curve below to see its history and some of its associated curves.

Astroid
Bicorn
Cardioid
Cartesian Oval
Cassinian Ovals
Catenary
Cayley's Sextic
Circle
Cissoid of Diocles
Cochleoid
Conchoid
Conchoid of de Sluze
Cycloid
Devil's Curve
Double Folium
Dürer's Shell Curves
Eight Curve
Ellipse
Epicycloid
Epitrochoid
Equiangular Spiral

Fermat's Spiral
Folium
Folium of Descartes
Freeth's Nephroid
Frequency Curve
Hyperbola
Hyperbolic Spiral
Hypocycloid
Hypotrochoid
Involute of a Circle
Kampyle of Eudoxus
Kappa Curve
Lamé Curves
Lemniscate of Bernoulli
Limacon of Pascal
Lissajous Curves
Lituus
Neile's Parabola
Nephroid
Newton's Parabolas
Parabola

Pearls of de Sluze
Pear-shaped Quartic
Plateau Curves
Pursuit Curve
Quadratrix of Hippias
Rhodonea Curves
Right Strophoid
Serpentine
Sinusoidal Spirals
Spiral of Archimedes
Spiric Sections
Straight Line
Talbot's Curve
Tractrix
Tricuspoid
Trident of Newton
Trifolium
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 April 2015 The URL of this page is:	School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Curves/Curves