- In mathematics, a
parabola is a
plane curve which is mirror-symmetrical and is
approximately U-shaped. It fits
several superficially different mathematical...
- ^{2}\right)} The
curves of
constant σ{\displaystyle \sigma } form
confocal parabolae 2y=x2σ2−σ2{\displaystyle 2y={\frac {x^{2}}{\sigma ^{2}}}-\sigma ^{2}}...
- can be
found in a 1644 work by
Evangelista Torricelli, De
dimensione parabolae.
Telescoping sums are
finite sums in
which pairs of
consecutive terms...
-
Philosophical Magazine, 24, 209–253—first
announcement of the two neon
parabolae J.J.
Thomson (1913), Rays of
positive electricity,
Proceedings of the...
- 14th-century
Welsh version of the
animal fables in Odo of Cheriton's
Parabolae, not all of
which are of
Aesopic origin. Many show
sympathy for the poor...
- Rumi's
English contemporary, Odo of Cheriton, in the
Latin work
known as
Parabolae. For him too the lion is a
symbol of God and his
actions are interpreted...
- S2CID 18995215. Smith, L.B. (1971). "Drawing ellipses,
hyperbolae or
parabolae with a
fixed number of points". The
Computer Journal. 14 (1): 81–86. doi:10...
- lost work on
triangles and The
Quadrature of the
Parabola (Quadratura
parabolae) with the
title Kitab al-****llathat from
Syriac into Arabic,[citation...
-
story appears as a
parable critical of the
clergy in Odo of Cheriton's
Parabolae.
Written around 1200, it was
afterwards translated into Welsh, French...
- was also a
pioneer in the area of
infinite series. In his De
dimensione parabolae of 1644,
Torricelli considered a
decreasing sequence of
positive terms...
