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When a pair of non-incident edges of a tetrahedron is chosen, the midpoints of the remaining 4 edges are the vertices of a planar parallelogram. A formula is given in terms of the six edge lengths for the area of this parallelogram. It is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-11 David N. Yetter

If we label the vertices of a triangle with 1, 2 and 4, and the orthocentre with 7, then any of the four numbers 1, 2, 4, 7 is the nim-sum of the other three and is their orthocentre. Regard the triangle as an orthocentric quadrangle.…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Richard K. Guy

Each triangle has three exterior or external circles tangential to the three straight lines containing the three sides of the triangle.Among the preliminaries in this paper, is deriving formulas for the radii of the three exterior circles…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2008-04-30 Konstantine Zelator

Given a right triangle and two inscribed squares, we show that the reciprocals of the hypotenuse and the sides of the squares satisfy an interesting Pythagorean equality. This gives new ways to obtain rational(integer)right triangles from a…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2007-05-23 H. Lee Price , Frank R. Bernhart

We will first solve the following problem analytically: given a piece of wire of specified length, we will find where the wire should be cut and bent to form two regular polygons not necessarily having the same number of sides, so that the…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Erica Walker , Raza M. Syed , Achille Corsetti

Given any positive integer n, we prove the existence of infinitely many right triangles with area n and side lengths in certain number fields. This generalizes the famous congruent number problem. The proof allows the explicit construction…

In this paper we describe a methodology for the identification of symmetric quadrature rules inside of quadrilaterals, triangles, tetrahedra, prisms, pyramids, and hexahedra. The methodology is free from manual intervention and is capable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-08 F. D. Witherden , P. E. Vincent

This second part on polygons in the hyperbolic plane is based on the first part which deals with uniqueness and existence of cocyclic polygons with prescribed sidelengths. The topic here is the maximum question for the area of these…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-24 Rolf Walter

We review Euler's work on spherical geometry. After an introduction concerning the general place that trigonometric formulae occupy in geometry, we start by the two memoirs of Euler on spherical trigonometry, in which he establishes the…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Athanase Papadopoulos , Vladimir Turaev

The cyclic sieving phenomenon of Reiner, Stanton, and White says that we can often count the fixed points of elements of a cyclic group acting on a combinatorial set by plugging roots of unity into a polynomial related to this set. One of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Sam Hopkins

We provide a remarkably simple algorithm to compute all (at most four) common tangents of two disjoint simple polygons. Given each polygon as a read-only array of its corners in cyclic order, the algorithm runs in linear time and constant…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Bartosz Walczak

Paul Erd\H{o}s and R. Daniel Mauldin asked a series of questions on certain types of polygons of area $1$, the vertices of which can be found in every planar set of infinite Lebesgue measure. We address two of these questions, one on cyclic…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Vjekoslav Kovač , Bruno Predojević

We prove a theorem on the relationships between the lengths of sides of a spherical quadrilateral with three right angles. They are analogous to the relationships in the Lambert quadrilateral in the hyperbolic plane. We apply this theorem…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Marek Lassak

It is well known that a triangle with side lengths 3, 4 and 5 is right-angled. Euclid was the first to give a formula for generating other right-angled triangles with integer side lengths. In this text, I present a novel algorithm to…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-05 Jan Pieter Zwart

We describe an algorithm for computing the separating common tangents of two simple polygons using linear time and only constant workspace. A tangent of a polygon is a line touching the polygon such that all of the polygon lies to the same…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Mikkel Abrahamsen

We introduce polyhedra circuits. Each polyhedra circuit characterizes a geometric region in $\mathbb{R}^d$. They can be applied to represent a rich class of geometric objects, which include all polyhedra and the union of a finite number of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Bin Fu , Pengfei Gu , Yuming Zhao

The author has been interested in regions surrounded by cylinders of real algebraic hypersurfaces and their shapes and polynomials associated to them. Here, we formulate and investigate natural decompositions into such cylinders of real…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Naoki Kitazawa

We describe a new algorithm to compute the geometric intersection number between two curves, given as edge vectors on an ideal triangulation. Most importantly, this algorithm runs in polynomial time in the bit-size of the two edge vectors.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-12 Mark C. Bell , Richard C. H. Webb

The Apollonius theorem gives the length of a median of a triangle in terms of the lengths of its sides. The straightforward generalization of this theorem obtained for m-simplices in the n-dimensional Euclidean space for n greater than or…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Michael N. Vrahatis

This paper explores and proves the one-seventh area triangle using a purely algebraic approach as opposed to a geometric one. A triangle set purely in the complex plane is used so that we can utilise features of the complex number system to…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Mathew Miltonhardy