Tractrices, Bicycle Tire Tracks, Hatchet Planimeters, and a 100-year-old Conjecture

DOI10.4169/amer.math.monthly.120.03.199zbMath1271.70025arXiv1207.0834OpenAlexW1512351567WikidataQ58295060 ScholiaQ58295060MaRDI QIDQ2846991

Mark Levi, Robert L. Foote, Sergei Tabachnikov

Publication date: 4 September 2013

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.0834

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integral geometry (53C65) Nonholonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles (70F25)

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