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Nov 18, 2022 at 1:42 comment added Jonah Numberphile did a video on this which animates it nicely: youtube.com/watch?v=lubGnk0UZt0&t=3s
Dec 22, 2016 at 11:28 comment added Jean Marie Becker I warmly recommend the (briefly cited) very interesting book "The Penguin Dictionnary of Curious and Interesting Geometry", by David Wells that can be accessed at (archive.org/details/…)
Aug 17, 2015 at 17:37 history edited Ilmari Karonen CC BY-SA 3.0
reupload image to stack.imgur, so we don't have to keep depending on archive.org
Jun 25, 2015 at 14:07 history edited pabouk - Ukraine stay strong CC BY-SA 3.0
replaced broken link by the archived one
Nov 7, 2014 at 22:36 comment added KalEl This was one of my favorite proofs in this list... it's a shame that imageshack took this picture off to promote their site.
Jul 28, 2013 at 18:29 comment added Patrick Da Silva Where is the picture?
Jan 29, 2012 at 16:51 comment added Rogelio Fernández-Alonso In this pretty solution there is another pretty geometric problem: Given three spheres there is a plane which is tangent to all three.
Jan 23, 2012 at 13:39 comment added benblumsmith Don't we need the cones to all have the same slope?
Jun 28, 2011 at 16:39 comment added Ian Agol You need to draw a 3D picture of this to get rid of the words!
Mar 25, 2010 at 19:00 history answered muad CC BY-SA 2.5