This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below.
Image File history File links Commons-logo. ...
Summary
Description
Osculating circle for curvature
Source
Own work, based on Image:OsculatingCircle.png
Date
19-11-2006
Author
User:Cepheus
Permission
{{{Permission}}}
Other versions
Image:OsculatingCircle.png
Licensing
I, the author of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.
In case this is not legally possible: I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
Afrikaans | Alemannisch | Aragonés | العربية | Български | Català | Česky | Dansk | Deutsch | Ελληνικά | English | Español | Esperanto | فارسی | Français | Galego | 한국어 | हिन्दी | Hrvatski | Ido | Bahasa Indonesia | Íslenska | Italiano | עברית | Latina | Lietuvių | Magyar | Bahasa Melayu | Nederlands | Norsk (bokmål) | Norsk (nynorsk) | 日本語 | Polski | Português | Ripoarish | Română | Русский | Slovenčina | Slovenščina | Српски | Svenska | ไทย | Türkçe | Українська | Tiếng Việt | Walon | 简体中文 | 繁體中文 | +/-
File links
The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed):
Euclid, Greek mathematician, 3rd century BC, known today as the father of geometry; shown here in a detail of The School of Athens by Raphael. ... Curvature refers to a number of loosely related concepts in different areas of geometry. ... An osculating circle A circle with 4-point contact at a vertex of a curve In differential geometry, the osculating circle of a curve at a point, is a circle which: Touches the curve at that point Has its unit tangent vector , equal to the unit tangent of the curve...