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Our paper “Random triangles and polygons in the plane” was published recently in the American Mathematical Monthly. See this post about the preprint for more background, but the short version is that we give a novel answer to Lewis Carroll’s question “What is the probability that a random triangle is obtuse?”

Above is an animated version of Figure 2 from the paper, showing a geodesic in triangle space. The geodesic starts at the equilateral triangle shown, and the three curved paths show the tracks of the three vertices.

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chium!

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[szimmetria-airtemmizs]

Simson line theorem. The three blue points always lie on a straight line. The blue points are the closest points to the moving red point on the lines. In other words the blue points are the projections of the moving red point to the lines.     

[mathani]

Inscribed in a grid of 2n-by-2n cells is a circle with diameter 2n - 1. How many cells include a segment of the circle?

The count grows simply as 8n - 4. How would you show that?

[mathhombre]

Awesome question.

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(Source: Adam Plouff)

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Geometry Matters:

Various nature elements that abide by geometric laws and construction patterns.

© Geometrymatters,2014

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We have three colored segment in this animation. Surprisingly the length of the longest one is always the sum of the length of the two smaller ones.

This is actually a very special case of Ptolemy’s theorem. The theorem gives a connection between the sides and the diagonals of a cyclic quadrilateral. In this case the length of the dashed lines is equal so the theorem can be simplified to the statement above.