WWW Sources for course "Geometry with Maple" Vladimir Rovenski, Haifa THEME: CURVES. ## This is one of the most complete history of mathematics site on the net. ## Links to biographies of related mathematians are well integrated in the description of each curve ## This site contains a section devoted to special plane curves: Famous Curves Index http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Curves/Curves.html http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Curves/Curves.html http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Curves.html ## A Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves http://xahlee.org/SpecialPlaneCurves_dir/specialPlaneCurves.html ## 2d curves This site is about 20 pages covering basic information on about 30 curves, grouped by degree http://www.2dcurves.com/ ## C u r v e s http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/pbourke http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/pbourke/curves/ ## Introducing Curves (This site is about 6 pages. It is a mathematical introduction to curves. A background of multivariable calculus is required). http://www.ma.umist.ac.uk/kd/curves/curves.html http://www.ma.umist.ac.uk/kd/curves/node5.html ## This Differential Geometry web site is maintained in memory of Professor Alfred Gray (1939 - 1998) http://math.cl.uh.edu/~gray/ # Mechanism curves http://www.mathcurve.com/courbes2d/troisbarres/troisbarre.shtml etc. # knots http://www.uni-essen.de/hrz/mathe/maple/worksheets/knoten.html # JavaView - 3D Geometry in Web Pages http://www-sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de/vgp/javaview/ http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Curves.html http://members.tripod.com/vismath2/lip/ # Bank of Curves http://curvebank.calstatela.edu/home/home.htm http://curvebank.calstatela.edu/index/index.htm