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  2. Folium of Descartes - Wikipedia

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    The folium of Descartes is related to the trisectrix of Maclaurin by affine transformation. To see this, start with the equation. and change variables to find the equation in a coordinate system rotated 45 degrees. This amounts to setting In the plane the equation is. If we stretch the curve in the direction by a factor of this becomes.

  3. René Descartes - Wikipedia

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    René Descartes ( / deɪˈkɑːrt / day-KART or UK: / ˈdeɪkɑːrt / DAY-kart; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] ⓘ; [note 3] [11] 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) [12] [13] [14] : 58 was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Mathematics was ...

  4. Curve sketching - Wikipedia

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    Newton's diagram (also known as Newton's parallelogram, after Isaac Newton) is a technique for determining the shape of an algebraic curve close to and far away from the origin. It consists of plotting (α, β) for each term Axαyβ in the equation of the curve. The resulting diagram is then analyzed to produce information about the curve.

  5. Cissoid - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, a cissoid (from Ancient Greek κισσοειδής (kissoeidēs) ' ivy -shaped') is a plane curve generated from two given curves C1, C2 and a point O (the pole ). Let L be a variable line passing through O and intersecting C1 at P1 and C2 at P2. Let P be the point on L so that (There are actually two such points but P is chosen so ...

  6. The World (book) - Wikipedia

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    The World, also called Treatise on the Light ( French title: Traité du monde et de la lumière ), is a book by René Descartes (1596–1650). Written between 1629 and 1633, it contains a nearly complete version of his philosophy, from method, to metaphysics, to physics and biology . Descartes espoused mechanical philosophy, a form of natural ...

  7. Talk:Folium of Descartes - Wikipedia

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    My math book refers to the folium of descartes as x^3+y^3-8xy=0 the difference being an 8 instead of a 3. Does the change in constants matter? Actually the equation given in the article has –3a as the coefficient. To get the equation in your book, specialize by setting a to 8/3. Ishboyfay 03:37, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

  8. Hessian form of an elliptic curve - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, the Hessian curve is a plane curve similar to folium of Descartes.It is named after the German mathematician Otto Hesse.This curve was suggested for application in elliptic curve cryptography, because arithmetic in this curve representation is faster and needs less memory than arithmetic in standard Weierstrass form.

  9. Cartesian circle - Wikipedia

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    Cartesian circle. The Cartesian circle (also known as Arnauld 's circle [1]) is an example of fallacious circular reasoning attributed to French philosopher René Descartes. He argued that the existence of God is proven by reliable perception, which is itself guaranteed by God.