Came across another nice puzzle from Mr Gordon (@MrGordonMaths): First thing I noticed was that it was a pythagorean triple. My initial thought was that there might be a solution involving circle theorems, but then I realised that as an area was given this might be the best route. As angle QPS IS 90, then […]| cavmaths
I’ve been looking through my saved puzzles again and I found this nice little one in the maths newsletter from Chris Smith (@aap03102): It’s a nice little question that took me some thinking about. First I considered the half squares with hypotenuse 2. As these are isoceles RATs, that means their side length is rt2 […]| cavmaths
He himself could hear the harmony of the Universe, and understood the music of the spheres, and the stars which move in concert with them, and which we cannot hear because of the limitations of our weak nature (Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras) I love legends. The life of Pythagoras is riddled with them: from the … Continue reading The Music of the Spheres→ The post The Music of the Spheres first appeared on Fronkonstin.| Fronkonstin
Consider the lowly square, a four-sided shape with sides of equal length meeting at right angles. The embodiment of what we’re referring to when we refer to square miles, square kilometers, s…| Logos con carne