Envelope Curve

Author

Gladys Catherine Apel, Marquette University

Date of Award

5-1937

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Department

Mathematical and Statistical Sciences

First Advisor

Harvey P. Pettit

Abstract

The theory of motion led three great mathematicians of the seventeenth century into the study of the envelope of a moving line. It was introduced by Christian Huygens, further developed by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhausen, and carefully analyzed by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science

Recommended Citation

Apel, Gladys Catherine, "Envelope Curve" (1937). Bachelors’ Theses. 172.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/172