The Helen of geometry

DOI10.4169/074683410X475083MaRDI QIDQ3069702zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 19 January 2011

Published in The College Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4169/074683410x475083

zbMATH Keywords

involutebrachistochronecycloid, tautochrone

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History in mathematics education (97A30) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Mappings and functions (educational aspects) (97I20) Analytic geometry, vector algebra (educational aspects) (97G70)

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