Christiaan Huygens and contact geometry (Q999201)
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Christiaan Huygens and contact geometry (English)
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3 February 2009
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An inaugural lecture, centered on person and work of Christiaan Huyghens, detailing his work on the cycloid as tautochrone and brachistochrone, and showing how contact geometry can be used to prove the equivalence of the Fermat and Huyghens principles in optics.
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Huygens
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contact geometry
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brachistochrone
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