Atzema spiral

spiral

last updated: 2005-11-12

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The Atzema spiral (or Pritch-Atzema spiral) is the curve whose catacaustic is a circle.
Eisso Atzema (with Yael Pritch) proved this recently (2000).

For large t, the curve approximates the Archimedes' spiral.
However, the spiral has an asymptote for x = 0.