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Viviani's curve

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Viviani's curve with MathMod

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Viviani Curve with MathMod

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Viviani's Curve töluleg greining

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Viviani Curves

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Satellite Viviani curve

In mathematics, particularly geometry, Viviani's curve, also known as Viviani's window, is a figure eight shaped space curve named after the Italian mathematician Vincenzo Viviani, the intersection of a sphere with a cylinder that is tangent to the sphere and passes through the center of the sphere. Before Viviani this curve was studied by Simon de La Loubère and Gilles de Roberval.
  • Properties of the curve 

  • Relation to other curves