List of curves - Definition and Overview

This is a list of curves, by Wikipedia page. See also list of curve topics.

Classical curves

• line
• Circle
  • Unit circle
• Conic sections
  • Ellipse
  • Parabola
  • Hyperbola
• Superellipse
• Cycloid
• Epicycloid
• Nephroid
• Hypocycloid
• Astroid
• Deltoid (curve)
• Lemniscate
  • lemniscate of Bernoulli
  • lemniscate of Gerono
  • lemniscate of Booth
• Witch of Agnesi
• Cardioid
• Limaçon
• Rose (mathematics)
• Catenary
• Spirals
  • Archimedean spiral
  • Hyperbolic spiral
  • Logarithmic spiral
  • Fermat's spiral
  • Cornu spiral or clothoid
  • Lituus
  • Nielsen's spiral
  • Cotes' spiral
  • Galileo's spiral[1] (http://www.mathcurve.com/courbes2d/galilee/galilee)
• Tractrix
• Lissajous figure
• Helix
• Cissoid of Diocles
• Conchoid of de Sluze
• Trisectrix of Maclaurin
• strophoid
• quintic of l'Hospital[2] (http://www.mathcurve.com/courbes2d/quintique%20de%20l%27hospital/quintique%20de%20l%27hospital)
• atriphtaloid
• isochrone of Huygens
• isochrone of Leibniz[3] (http://www.mathcurve.com/courbes2d/isochron/isochrone%20leibniz)
• isochrone of Varignon[4] (http://www.mathcurve.com/courbes2d/isochron/isochrone%20varignon)

Constructions

• Blancmange curve
• Dragon curve
• Koch curve
• Lévy C curve

Curves of mathematical analysis

• Jordan curve, simple closed curve
  • Jordan curve theorem
• Closed curve
• Rectifiable curve
• Peano curve=space-filling curve
• Sierpinski curve

Piecewise constructions

• Bezier curve
• Splines
  • B-spline
  • Nonuniform rational B-spline
• Ogee
• Lowess curve

Algebraic curves

See also Riemann surface

• Projective line
• Cubic curve
• Elliptic curve
• Hyperelliptic curve
• Modular curve
• Fermat curve
• Klein's quartic curve
• Plane curve, Space curve
• Modular curve

Named graphs

Economics

• Contract curve
• Demand curve
  • Compensated demand curve
• Engel curve
• Indifference curve
• Laffer curve
• Lorenz curve
• Phillips curve
• J-curve effect {Things go downhill(worse) before they start climbing(improving) again}

Other

• Asteroid light curve
• Bathtub curve
• Bell curve
• Calibration curve
• Cardiac function curve
• Fletcher-Munson curve
• Forgetting curve
• Growth curve
• Hubbert curve
• Kruithof curve
• Learning curve
• Light curve
• Logistic curve
• Oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve
• Paschen curve
• Rotation curve
• Stress-strain curve