The Lost Art of Curve Sketching

Looking at the toolkit of useful mathematical techniques involved in sketching curves

With the advent of modern technology, there is less and less need to sketch curves by hand. There is now easily accessible data science software (see later) which can graph a curve for you, and for this reason I see curve-sketching questions appear less and less on math examination papers compared to a couple of decades ago.

But curve-sketching is still a valuable skill to know. Sketching a curve is part math…