Timeline for Yau's problem: Construct a triangle given a side, an angle, and an angle bisector
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| Jul 2, 2019 at 15:25 | history | edited | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added brief comment about correspondence with Yau
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| May 16, 2019 at 8:27 | answer | added | user131781 | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 16, 2019 at 2:25 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @GerryMyerson: Thanks! Those are good pointers. But I'm still puzzled by Yau's remarks about unsolvability. | |
| May 16, 2019 at 2:01 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | The question came up on math.stackexchange some months ago, math.stackexchange.com/questions/2889273/… | |
| May 16, 2019 at 1:56 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Side, opposite angle, and angle bisector is discussed at cut-the-knot.org/triangle/SideAngleAngleBisector.shtml | |
| May 16, 2019 at 1:49 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Distantly related is the impossibility of constructing a triangle, in general, given the lengths of its angle bisectors. cut-the-knot.org/triangle/TriangleFromBisectors.shtml | |
| May 15, 2019 at 23:22 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | Many of the possible answers are easily constructed with compass and straightedge. I'm guessing it is unknown if the known side is adjacent to the known angle? Gerhard "Not Seeing All The Possibilities" Paseman, 2019.05.15. | |
| May 15, 2019 at 23:05 | history | asked | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 4.0 |