- "over-thrown" or "excessive", from
which the
English term
hyperbole also derives.
Hyperbolae were
discovered by
Menaechmus in his
investigations of the
problem of...
-
Astronomical Unit.
Before he left Padua,
Gregory published Vera
Circuli et
Hyperbolae Quadratura (1667) in
which he
approximated the
areas of the
circle and...
-
coordinate system in
which the
coordinate lines are
confocal ellipses and
hyperbolae. The two foci F 1 {\displaystyle F_{1}} and F 2 {\displaystyle F_{2}}...
-
equations describe two
families of
hyperbolae in an x–ct
spacetime diagram,
which are
termed invariant hyperbolae. In Fig. 2-7a, each
magenta hyperbola...
-
neighbourhoods of
different bodies using a two-body approximation,
ellipses and
hyperbolae, the SOI is
taken as the
boundary where the
trajectory switches which...
- In geometry, two
conic sections are
called confocal if they have the same foci.
Because ellipses and
hyperbolas have two foci,
there are
confocal ellipses...
-
accompanying Section "Invariant hyperbola" of the
article Spacetime, the
magenta hyperbolae represented actual paths that are
tracked by a
constantly accelerating...
- a
conic section such as a
hyperbola or an ellipse. The
collection of
hyperbolae was
called a
pelekonon (axe) by the Gr****s,
because it
resembles a double-bladed...
- can
degenerate into two
lines crossing at a point,
through a
family of
hyperbolae having those lines as
common asymptotes. A
degenerate triangle is a "flat"...
-
proof of the
impossibility of
squaring the
circle in Vera
Circuli et
Hyperbolae Quadratura (The True
Squaring of the
Circle and of the Hyperbola) in 1667...
