"Asymptote" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... may like a shadow and the phantom of itself,—is the only substance that we possess, the one immutable fact. To-day is but the asymptote of to-morrow, that curve perpetually drawing near, but never reaching the straight line flying into infinity. To-morrow, the great future, belongs to the heaven where it tends. Were it otherwise, seeing the indestructible ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 • Various
... mean proportionals. If a:xx:yy:b, then x²ay, y²bx and xyab. These equations represent, in Cartesian co-ordinates, and with rectangular axes, the conics by the intersection of which two and two Menaechmus solved the problem; in the case of the rectangular hyperbola it was the asymptote-property which he used. ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various |
