“Lemniscate”的概念、定义、习题解题方法及翻译-数学辞典

单词

Lemniscate

释义

Lemniscate

A polar curve also called Lemniscate of Bernoulli which is the Locus of points the product of whose distancesfrom two points (called the Foci) is a constant. Letting the Foci be located at , the Cartesian equation is

(1)

which can be rewritten

(2)

Letting

, the Polar Coordinates are given by

(3)

An alternate form is

(4)

The parametric equations for the lemniscate are

			(5)
			(6)

The bipolar equation of the lemniscate is

(7)

and in Pedal Coordinates with the Pedal Point at the center, the equation is

(8)

The two-center Bipolar Coordinates equation with origin at a Focus is

(9)

Jakob Bernoulli published an article in Acta Eruditorum in 1694 in which he calledthis curve the lemniscus (``a pendant ribbon''). Jakob Bernoulli was not aware that the curve he was describing was aspecial case of Cassini in 1680. The general properties ofthe lemniscate were discovered by G. Fagnano in 1750 (MacTutor Archive). Gauss's andEuler's investigations of the Arc Length of the curve led to later work on EllipticFunctions.

The Curvature of the lemniscate is

(10)

The Arc Length is more problematic. Using the polar form,

(11)

(12)

But we have

(13)

(14)

(15)


			(16)

and

(17)

Let

, so

, and

(18)

which, as shown in Lemniscate Function, is given analytically by

(19)

, then

(20)

which is related to Gauss's Constant

(21)

The quantity

is called the Lemniscate Constant and plays a role for the lemniscate analogous tothat of

for the Circle.

The Area of one loop of the lemniscate is


			(22)

See also Lemniscate Function

References

Ayoub, R. ``The Lemniscate and Fagnano's Contributions to Elliptic Integrals.'' Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 29, 131-149, 1984.

Borwein, J. M. and Borwein, P. B. Pi & the AGM: A Study in Analytic Number Theory and Computational Complexity. New York: Wiley, 1987.

Gray, A. ``Lemniscates of Bernoulli.'' §3.2 in Modern Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, pp. 39-41, 1993.

Lawrence, J. D. A Catalog of Special Plane Curves. New York: Dover, pp. 120-124, 1972.

Le Lionnais, F. Les nombres remarquables. Paris: Hermann, p. 37, 1983.

Lee, X. ``Lemniscate of Bernoulli.'' http://www.best.com/~xah/SpecialPlaneCurves_dir/LemniscateOfBernoulli_dir/lemniscateOfBernoulli.html.

Lockwood, E. H. A Book of Curves. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1967.

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

Yates, R. C. ``Lemniscate.'' A Handbook on Curves and Their Properties. Ann Arbor, MI: J. W. Edwards, pp. 143-147, 1952.

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