The Mathematical Beauty Contest

Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn

Chapter 12 in 3.1416 And All That, 1985, pp 88-93 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract WHAT IS YOUR candidate for the most beautiful curve? Is it the arch of a parabola, when seen against the sky as the cable of a great bridge? Is it perhaps the Spiral of Cornu, with its graceful reverse twist and the mystery of its infinite spiraling toward two points?

Keywords: Constant Curvature; Isoperimetric Inequality; Constant Width; Billiard Ball; Circular Loop (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-8519-0_12

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