Famous Curves Index

mynameishere · on Oct 25, 2009

How do I get Wolfram Alpha to plot these things

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Newtons.h...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%7Ba+y%5E2+%3D+x+%28x%5...

pwmanagerdied · on Oct 25, 2009

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=y+%3D+sqrt%28x%28x^2-2x...

The equation there has five different variables, you can generally only graph expressions with two. In the above link I've eliminated them, but if you play around with their values instead you'd be able to produce a more interesting graph.

I think. I may be misunderstanding this.

ekpyrotic · on Oct 24, 2009

There's been a few St Andrews articles recently, any other St Andreans here?

pbhjpbhj · on Oct 25, 2009

Yup. I'm a graduate of the "mac labs".

ekpyrotic · on Oct 26, 2009

What are you working on? Have you decided to work in the UK/US/elsewhere?

pbhjpbhj · on Oct 27, 2009

Um, my wife and I run a pottery studio - a natural follow up to chemistry and theor.phys+maths degrees! How about you? Plans for when you leave?

chasingsparks · on Oct 24, 2009

Reason #4,298 that I love HN -- serendipity. I have a project on my plate that requires a library of popular curve functions. It was my TODO item tomorrow. Thanks for freeing up my Sunday.