Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-g7gxr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-05T04:24:31.729Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A family of discrete spirals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2020

Tony Crilly
Tony Crilly*
Affiliation:
10 Lemsford Road, St Albans AL1 3PB, e-mail: [email protected]
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Most spirals are continuous spirals, certainly those famous in history such as the traditional Archimedean spiral (r = a + bθ) and the logarithmic spirals (r = aebθ. Here we consider ‘discrete spirals’.

Type
Articles
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 104 , Issue 560 , July 2020 , pp. 215 - 224
Check for updates
Copyright
© Mathematical Association 2020

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Hardy, G. H. and Wright, E. M.. An introduction to the theory of numbers (3rd edn.) Oxford (1954).Google Scholar
Sloane, N. J. A., Sequence A056520 in On-line encyclopedia of integer sequences (OE15), accessed January 2020.Google Scholar
Brink, D., The spiral of Theodorus and sums of zeta-values at the half-integers, Amer. Math. Monthly, 119(9) pp. 779–786 (2012).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wilson, Robert J., Sequence A072895 in On-line encyclopedia of integer sequences (OE15), accessed January 2020.Google Scholar