First examined by Jacob Bernoulli (1654 - 16705) in 1694, the lemniscate of Bernoulli has the general form of a figure eight, or the mathematical symbol for infinity. Bernoulli's conceptualization of the lemniscate followed his earlier research on...

In algebraic geometry, the word lemniscate refers to any of several figure-eight or ∞ shaped curves, of which the best known is the Lemniscate of Bernoulli. It is also sometimes used to refer to the ∞ symbol used in mathematics as a symbol for...