Puzzle: 22 pieces of polygons.
Frank Morley was a member of Haverford College's Department of Mathematics in the early part of the twentieth century. He is credited with being the first to arrive at the celebrated Morley's trisector theorem:
"The three points of intersection of the adjacent angle trisectors of any triangle form an equilateral triangle."
Continue reading at:
gogeometry.com/puzzle/Puzzle_Morley.htm
Friday, December 5, 2008
Morley's Theorem Puzzle
Labels:
equilateral,
Morley's theorem,
puzzle,
triangle,
trisection
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment