Sunday Function | ScienceBlogs

Well, it's Gabriel, Gabriel playin'! Gabriel, Gabriel sayin' When I blow my horn?" - Cole Porter, Anything Goes The commenters in last week's Sunday Function proposed an excellent idea for this week. As we did then, we'll start simple and work up to it. Graph the curve f(x) = 1/x. Now take the horizontal axis and think of it as an axle, one that can rotate smoothly. Hook a motor onto it and spin it up to a nice fast clip. The graph of the function will trace out a surface in three-dimensional space. In the business, we call it a