E665 -- Evolutio problematis cuius solutio analytica est difficillima dum synthetica per se est obvia
(The evolution of a problem whose analytic solution is most difficult, while the synthetic solution for it is obvious)
Summary:
According to Eneström, the goal is "to define a curve so that for every point, the distance from center point of the curvature to a given point is constant."
Publication:
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Originally published in Nova Acta Academiae Scientarum Imperialis Petropolitinae 8, 1794, pp. 73-86
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Opera Omnia: Series 1, Volume 29, pp. 161 - 175
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