Kappa Curve

A curve also known as MacTutor Archive). Itwas also studied by Newton and, some years later, by Johann Bernoulli. It is given by the Cartesian equation

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References

Lawrence, J. D. A Catalog of Special Plane Curves. New York: Dover, pp. 136 and 139-141, 1972.

MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. ``Kappa Curve.''http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Kappa.html.

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