The Plateau curves were studied by the Belgian physicist and mathematician Joseph Plateau. They have Cartesian equation
where .
If , the Plateau curves degenerate to
which is a circle with center and radius .
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References
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. "Plateau Curves." http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Plateau.html.Referenced
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