Definition:Folium of Descartes/Linguistic Note
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Linguistic Note on Folium of Descartes
The word folium in the term folium of Descartes derives from the Latin for leaf, from the leaf-shaped loop that it encloses.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): folium of Descartes
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): folium of Descartes