Maclaurin trisectrix
A curve first studied by Colin Maclaurin in
1742 with a view to solving one of the great geometric problems of antiquity
– trisecting an angle.
The Maclaurin trisectrix results from the Cartesian equation
y2(a + x) = x2(3a
- x).
It is an anallagmatic curve that
intersects itself at the origin. Related category
PLANE
CURVES
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