A Fermat's spiral or parabolic spiral is a plane curve with the property that the area between any two consecutive full turns around the spiral is invariant...
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Archimedean spiral hyperbolic spiral Fermat's spiral lituus logarithmic spiral Cornu spiral spiral of Theodorus Fibonacci Spiral (golden spiral) The involute...
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Other spirals falling into this group include the hyperbolic spiral (c = −1), Fermat's spiral (c = 2), and the lituus (c = −2). One method of squaring the...
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conical spiral can be seen as the intersection curve of the cone with a helicoid. 2) The second diagram shows a conical spiral with a Fermat's spiral r (...
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Fermat's Last Theorem is a popular science book (1997) by Simon Singh. It tells the story of the search for a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, first conjectured...
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with spiral forms, such as in sunflower seed heads, these are more closely related to Fermat spirals than logarithmic spirals. A golden spiral with initial...
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Phyllotaxis (section Repeating spiral)
Anisophylly, a type of leaf size difference on horizontal shoots Decussation Fermat's spiral L-system Orixa japonica Parastichy Plastochron Three-gap theorem Sphere...
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threefold Fermat quotient Fermat's difference quotient Fermat's factorization method Fermat's Last Theorem Fermat's little theorem Fermat's method Fermat's method...
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Catherine wheel (firework) List of spiral galaxies Parker spiral Spirangle Spirograph "Fermat spiral - Encyclopedia of Mathematics". www.encyclopediaofmath...
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Patterns in nature (section Spirals)
spiral Bighorn sheep, Ovis canadensis Spirals: phyllotaxis of spiral aloe, Aloe polyphylla Nautilus shell's logarithmic growth spiral Fermat's spiral:...
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{\displaystyle O} . Fermat's spiral List of spirals Hahn, Harry K. (2007), The ordered distribution of natural numbers on the square root spiral, arXiv:0712.2184...
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floret and c is a constant scaling factor; the florets thus lie on Fermat's spiral. The divergence angle, approximately 137.51°, is the golden angle,...
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Gallery of curves (section Spirals)
Syntractrix Tractrix Trochoid Archimedean spiral Cornu spiral Fermat's spiral Hyperbolic spiral Lituus Logarithmic spiral Maurer rose Reuleaux triangle Blancmange...
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center of a flat cylindrical vacuum chamber along a spiral path. The particles are held to a spiral trajectory by a static magnetic field and accelerated...
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not tangent. Instead of having centers on a logarithmic spiral, they are placed on Fermat's spiral, offset by the golden angle 2 π / φ 2 ≈ 137.5 ∘ {\displaystyle...
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Sinusoid Spirals Archimedean spiral Cornu spiral Cotes' spiral Fermat's spiral Galileo's spiral [3] Hyperbolic spiral Lituus Logarithmic spiral Nielsen's...
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a sunflower plant Sunflower leaf structure Seed under a microscope Fermat's spiral Phyllotaxis Stegocintractia junci "Helianthus". Germplasm Resources...
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Pedal equation (section Sinusoidal spirals)
{\frac {rp_{c}}{p}}\right)=0.} As an example take the logarithmic spiral with the spiral angle α: r = a e cos α sin α θ . {\displaystyle r=ae^{{\frac...
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2 ) , {\displaystyle (r,\theta )=(x,x^{2}),} the plot obtained is Fermat's spiral. A function can be represented as a table of values. If the domain...
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of the floret and c is a constant scaling factor. It is a form of Fermat's spiral. The angle 137.5° is related to the golden ratio (55/144 of a circular...
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Spirals Archimedean spiral Cornu spiral Cotes' spiral Fermat's spiral Galileo's spiral Hyperbolic spiral Lituus Logarithmic spiral Nielsen's spiral Golden...
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Number theory (section Fermat)
pointed him towards some of Fermat's work on the subject. This has been called the "rebirth" of modern number theory, after Fermat's relative lack of success...
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approximable number implies that points spaced at this angle along the Fermat spiral (as they are in some models of plant growth) form a Delone set; intuitively...
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solutions for arc length include the catenary, circle, cycloid, logarithmic spiral, parabola, semicubical parabola and straight line. The lack of a closed...
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rational point on the Fermat curve has a corresponding rational point on this curve, giving an equivalent formulation of Fermat's Last Theorem. As an example...
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de Fermat stated (without proof) Fermat's little theorem (later proved by Leibniz and Euler). Fermat also investigated the primality of the Fermat numbers...
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later write that his own early ideas about calculus came directly from "Fermat's way of drawing tangents." The formal study of calculus brought together...
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kind, using 3 & 4 (34 - 43). 17 is a Fermat prime. 17 is one of six lucky numbers of Euler. Since seventeen is a Fermat prime, regular heptadecagons can be...
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example, methods of algebraic geometry are fundamental in Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, a problem that was stated in terms of elementary arithmetic...
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