Definition:Cissoid of Diocles/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Cissoid of Diocles
Diocles of Carystus designed the curve now known as the cissoid of Diocles in about $180$ BCE, specifically for solving the problem of Doubling the Cube.
It was given its name by Geminus of Rhodes about a century later.
It can also be used to divide an angle into any proportion.
Sources
- 1968: Murray R. Spiegel: Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables ... (previous) ... (next): $\S 11$: Special Plane Curves: Cissoid of Diocles: $11.34$
- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $1 \cdotp 25992 \, 10498 \, 94873 \, 16476 \ldots$
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $1 \cdotp 25992 \, 10498 \, 94873 \, 16476 \ldots$
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $3$
- Weisstein, Eric W. "Cissoid of Diocles." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/CissoidofDiocles.html