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Proof AG = 2EF in an Isosceles Right Triangle [closed]
In an isosceles right triangle ABC with angle ACB = 90 degrees and angle CAB = angle ABC, let point G lie inside triangle ABC. In the isosceles right triangle CGE, where angle CGE = 90 degrees and CG =...
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Dissection proof of Heron's formula?
In his recent book, Love Triangle, Matt Parker playfully complains that Heron's formula is an "opaque formula, and I feel like you just chuck in the side-lengths, turn a series of arbitrary ...
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Question on a vector inequality
Is it true that
$$
\min\left( \begin{aligned}
&\|\mathbf{u}\| + \|\mathbf{v}\| - \|\mathbf{u} + \mathbf{v}\|, \\
&\|\mathbf{u}\| + \|\mathbf{w}\| - \|\mathbf{u} + \mathbf{w}\|, \\
&\|\...
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A certain circle formed by perpendiculars
If six points are chosen, two points on each side of a triangle, such that they have the same ratio of distances to vertices, then the perpendicular lines through those points meet at six concyclic ...
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Name of the perspector of the orthic triangle and excentral triangle
The orthic triangle and tangential triangles of a given triangle are in perspective. What's the official kimberling center associated with this perspector?
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Name this kimberling center
The lines which connect the vertices of a triangle with the tangent points between the Spieker circle and the medial triangle are concurrent. Which kimberling center does this point correspond to?
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A circle is inscribed in a triangle, with three other circles in the corner regions. The radii are integers. Possible values of the largest radius?
Originally posted at MSE.
A circle with integer radius $R$ is inscribed in a triangle. Three other circles with integer radii $a,b,c$ are each tangent to the large circle and two sides of the ...
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Packing an upwards equilateral triangle efficiently by downwards equilateral triangles
Consider the problem of packing an upwards-pointing unit equilateral triangle "efficiently" by downwards-pointing equilateral triangles, where "efficiently" means that there is ...
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Another variant of the Malfatti problem
We try to add to A Variant of the Malfatti Problem
As stated in the Wikipedia entry on Malfatti circles, it is an open problem to decide, given a number $n$ and any triangle, whether a greedy method ...
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Is there a pyramid with all four faces being right triangles? [closed]
If such a pyramid exists, could someone provide the coordinates of its vertices?
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Do the heights of an acute triangle intersect at a single point (in neutral geometry)?
A well-known result of the Euclidean planimetry says that the heights of any triangle have a common point called the orthocentre of the triangle. This result is not true in neutral geometry (i.e., ...
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Finding angle with geometric approach [closed]
I would like to solve the problem in this picture:
with just an elementary geometric approach. I already solved with trigonometry, e.g. using the Bretschneider formula, finding that the angle $ x = ...
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The closest ellipse to a given triangle
Definition: The Hausdorff distance between two point sets is the greatest of all the distances from a point in one set to the closest point in the other set.
Question: Given a general triangle T, to ...
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Partition of polygons into 'strongly acute' and 'strongly obtuse' triangles
Definition: Let us refer to obtuse triangles with the largest angle strictly above a given cutoff value as 'strongly obtuse' - the definition is parametrized by the cutoff value. Likewise, strongly ...
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How many equilaterals have vertices intersections of angle trisectors of a triangle?
The celebrated Morley’s theorem ensures that the interior trisectors, proximal to sides respectively, meet at vertices of an equilateral.
In the paper Trisectors like Bisectors with Equilaterals ...
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Is the orthocenter "(roughly) equationally finitely-based"?
Let $T$ be the "almost everywhere" equational theory of the orthocenter function, "tweaked appropriately" to avoid partiality issues (see this earlier question of mine for details)....
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Equational theory of the orthocenter
Previously asked at MSE:
Briefly speaking, I'm looking for a description of the equational theory of the orthocenter function, $\mathsf{orth}$. By $\mathsf{orth}$ I mean the (partial) function sending ...
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Is there a conceptual reason why so many triplets of lines in a triangle are concurrent?
One of the striking phenomena one can't help but notice in elementary Euclidean geometry is how easy it appears to be to define triples of lines in a triangle which meet in a point. Now for each ...
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Triangles that can be cut into mutually congruent and non-convex polygons
It is easy to note that an equilateral triangle can be cut into 3 mutually congruent and non-convex polygons (replace the 3 lines meeting at centroid and separating out the 3 congruent quadrilaterals ...
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Tiling with a one-parameter family of non-congruent triangles
This post continues Tiling with triangles of same circumradius and inradius.
The following are known about infinite sets of triangles that can be parametrized with one variable:
from an infinite set ...
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Which theorems have Pythagoras' Theorem as a special case?
Loomis famously wrote hundreds of proofs of Pythagoras' Theorem (reference below), but these are all basically proofs "from below". Today on Twitter @panlepan mentioned Carnot's theorem ...
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How big can a triangle be, whose sides are the perpendiculars to the sides of a triangle from the vertices of its Morley triangle?
Given any triangle $\varDelta$, the perpendiculars from the vertices of its (primary) Morley triangle to their respective (nearest) side of $\varDelta$ intersect in a triangle $\varDelta'$, which is ...
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The outer Nagel points and unknown central circle
Na, Nb, Nc are the outer Nagel points. A'B'C' is the contact triangle. I claim that lines A'B', A'C', B'C' always cut the sides of the triangle NaNbNc at six points corresponding to an unknown circle.
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Two triangles have the same centroid theorem
Let $\triangle ABC$ and $\triangle A'B'C'$ be two triangles. The line through $A$ and perpendicular to $AA'$ meets the line through $B'$ and perpendicular to $BB'$ at $A_b$; The line through $A$ and ...
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Are there infinitely many "generalized triangle vertices"?
Briefly, I'd like to know whether there are infinitely many "generalized triangle centers" which - like the orthocenter - are indistinguishable from a vertex of the original triangle. This ...
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Maximizing the area of a region involving triangles
I thought of a question while making up an exercise sheet for high school students, and posted it on MathStackExchange but did not receive an answer (the original post is here), so I thought perhaps ...
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Pseudo-Droz-Farny circles
I would like to present a construction of 2 circles. These 2 circles are somewhat similar in appearance to the well known Droz-Farny circles that can be drawn for every isogonal conjugate pairs of ...
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The 4th vertex of a triangle?
I was immensely surprised and amused by the idea of the fourth side of a triangle that was introduced by B.F.Sherman in 1993. 'Sherman's Fourth Side of a Triangle' by Paul Yiu is available here. ...
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Constructing an equilateral triangle using Tarski's axioms for geometry
In Euclid's first geometry proposition, he constructs an equilateral triangle given an arbitrary line segment. I was wondering if it was possible to prove this straight from Tarski's axioms for ...
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Need help with finding all angles of 11 sided 3D object [closed]
Question: I'm an artist trying to build a hendecahedron for a project (Image below to see the shape). This object consists of 5 pentagons at the base, 1 pentagon on the bottom, then 5 quadrilaterals ...
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Six conelliptic points
Can you prove the following proposition:
Proposition. Given an arbitrary triangle $\triangle ABC$. Let $D,E,F$ be the points on the sides $AB$,$BC$ and $AC$ respectively , such that $\frac{AB}{DA}=\...
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Three circles meet at a point [closed]
I am looking for the proof of the following proposition:
Proposition. Let $\triangle ABC$ be an arbitrary triangle with circumcenter $O$. Let $A',B',C'$ be a reflection points of the points $A,B,C$ ...
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Inequality in a triangle associated with Golden ratio
Let $ABC$ be arbitrary triangle, $D$, $E$, $F$ are the midpoints of $BC$, $CA$, $AB$ respectively. Define points, segments in the figure below. I am looking for a proof that:
$$DE+EF+FD \le (DG+DH+EI+...
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Generalizing Bottema's theorem
Can you provide another proof for the claim given below?
Claim. In any triangle $\triangle ABC$ construct triangles $\triangle ACE$ and $\triangle BDC$ on sides $AC$ and $BC$ such that $\frac{AE}{AC}...
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Three circles intersecting at one point
Can you provide a proof for the following proposition:
Proposition. Let $\triangle ABC$ be an arbitrary triangle with nine-point center $N$ and circumcenter $O$. Let $A',B',C'$ be a reflection points ...
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Point of concurrency [closed]
I am looking for the proof of the following claim:
Claim: Let $\triangle ABC$ be an arbitrary triangle, $D$ its nine-point center and $E,F,G$ are the nine-point centers of the triangles $\triangle ...
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Four concyclic triangle centers
Can you prove the claim given below? Inspired by Lester's theorem I have formulated the following claim:
Claim. Given any scalene triangle $\triangle ABC$ . Let $D$ be the reflection of incenter in ...
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A generalization of Napoleon's theorem
Can you provide a proof for the following proposition?
Proposition. Given an arbitrary $\triangle ABC$. The $\triangle AEB$, $\triangle BFC$ and $\triangle CDA$ are constructed on the sides of the $...
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Intersection point of three circles
Can you provide a proof for the following proposition:
Proposition. Let $\triangle ABC$ be an arbitrary triangle with orthocenter $H$. Let $D,E,F$ be a midpoints of the $AB$,$BC$ and $AC$ , ...
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What is the minimum number of triangle centers sufficient to unambiguously describe a triangle?
I am looking for a minimal number of properties describing a triangle so that these properties are invariant to the choice of a Cartesian coordinate system as well as to the order in which the ...
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Perimeter points in triangle
Let $ABC$ denotes a triangle and $p(ABC)$ denotes its perimeter. We say two points $O_1$ and $O_2$ inside this triangle are perimeter points if there are points $a$, $b$ and $c$ on the sides $BC$, $AC$...
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Property of triangle centers
$M$ is the intersection of 3 cevians in the triangle $ABC$.
$$AB_1 = x,\quad CA_1 = y,\quad BC_1= z.$$
It can be easily proven that for both Nagel and Gergonne points the following equation is true:
$...
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Triangles with a given outer Soddy circle of the Malfatti circles
I did a JavaScript interactive picture of the Malfatti circles of a triangle. The user can drag the vertices of the triangle and the Malfatti circles are updated accordingly.
Now, I would like to ...
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Triangle angle bisectors, trisectors, quadrisectors, …
With the triangle
angle bisector theorem
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Morley's trisector theorem
as background ,
are there any pretty theorems known for triangle $n$-sectors,
$n > 3$?
For example, angle quadrisectors?
The ...
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Please identify this triangle septic
Let $ABC$ a triangle in the plane, but $D$ a point in (R3) space, such that the angles $\phi=ADB=BDC=CDA$ are equal. Let $E$ be the footpoint of $D$ in $ABC$. $E(\phi)$ describes a (irreducible) ...
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On 4 random points in a rectangle [closed]
Given a bounded rectangular area, I generate 4 random points. What is the probability that the fourth point lie within a triangle formed the first 3?
How would I attack this problem? The goal is to ...
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Hyperbolic Intercept (Thales) Theorem
Is there an Intercept theorem (from Thales, but don't mistake it with the Thales theorem in a circle) in hyperbolic geometry?
Euclidean Intercept Theorem:
Let S,A,B,C,D be 5 points, such that SA, SC, ...
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Infinity new equilateral triangles in one configuration of triangle plane
An equilateral triangle constructed from a reference triangle is a topic which is intersested by plane geometry lovers. See Napoleon equilateral triangle, Morley equilateral triangle....In this topic ...
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Some Problems On Apollonian Gasket
Since 2013, I found Some problems on Apollonian Gasket as following. These problem also is higher level of Eppstein Point. I am looking for a proof of one of these problems:
Let three $(A)$, $(B)$, $(...
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An new equilateral triangle related to the Morley triangle
Morley equilateral triangle is the nice theorem in Eulidean Geometry. I found an equilateral triangle and a group circle related to the Morley triangle and angle trisectors:
Let $ABC$ be a triangle ...
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