The Secret Garden of Maths

This is made from a quintic graph (a polynomial of degree 5).  It’s possible to apply the “treatment” to any function, including reciprocal, hyperbolic and trigonometric functions.

The treatment is to substitute your function and its derivative into this pair of parametric equations:

The files from my MathsJam 2012 talk are here:

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• 1.ggb
• 2.ggb
• 3.ggb
• secx.ggb
• sinx.ggb
• tanx.ggb
• Slides.pptx

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