Famous curves - Lituus

The lituus curve originated with Cotes in 1722. Lituus means a crook, for example a bishop's crosier. Maclaurin used the term in his book Harmonia Mensurarumin 1722. The lituus is the locus of the point P moving in such a manner that the area of a circular sector remains constant.
Roger Cotes (1682-1716) died at the age of 34 having only published two memoirs during his lifetime. Appointed professor at Cambridge at the age of 24 his work was published only after his death.
Cotes discovered an important theorem on the nth roots of unity; anticipated the method of least squares and discovered a method of integrating rational fractions with binomial denominators.

(1997. Available: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Curves/Lituus.html )

The basics

Ever think back to when you had your first encounter with mathematics?

Or what about those high school exams?

I think when some of us look back to those days we realize how little of mathematics we knew then (and still do). That was only a drop in the big ocean, with still so much that is unexplored. This is one of the many reasons why I love math, there's always new things to learn and discover, you definitely can never get bored or run out of ideas, there is always excitement.

Although some people would read my last statement and think: "Nerd!" or "Geek!", I feel obliqed to feel sorry for them, because there is this amazing,, incredible thing in life that they would probably never discover.

I am not saying that everyone should love or even like math, but it is definitely something which should be appreciated.

Mathematics is everywhere imaginable, it is infinite.

HAVE FUN

Pythagoras

The picture below is indeed of Pythagoras.

For more about him please visit this link:

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pythagoras.html