Timeline for Stewart's formula in plane geometry
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| Jun 26, 2020 at 2:05 | comment | added | Đào Thanh Oai | mathoverflow.net/questions/234184/… | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 17:02 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | can't you say the same about Pythagoras? (since Pythagoras --> law of cosines --> Stewart) | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 14:32 | comment | added | Fedor Petrov | It possibly just means that many problems reduce to finding the fifth member of the set $\{PA,PB,PC,AB,AC\}$ given that other four are known. Another interpretation is that Stewart's formula is universal in a philosophical sense: it is an equivalent substitute to Cartesian coordinates, which are universal in the usual sense. | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 14:08 | history | asked | coudy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |