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  2. Happy ending problem - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the "happy ending problem" (so named by Paul Erdős because it led to the marriage of George Szekeres and Esther Klein [1]) is the following statement: Theorem — any set of five points in the plane in general position [ 2 ] has a subset of four points that form the vertices of a convex quadrilateral .

  3. Mass point geometry - Wikipedia

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    Mass point geometry, colloquially known as mass points, is a problem-solving technique in geometry which applies the physical principle of the center of mass to geometry problems involving triangles and intersecting cevians. [1]

  4. Nine dots puzzle - Wikipedia

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    To do so, one goes outside the confines of the square area defined by the nine dots themselves. The phrase thinking outside the box, used by management consultants in the 1970s and 1980s, is a restatement of the solution strategy. According to Daniel Kies, the puzzle seems hard because we commonly imagine a boundary around the edge of the dot ...

  5. AlphaGeometry - Wikipedia

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    AlphaGeometry is an artificial intelligence (AI) program that can solve hard problems in Euclidean geometry.It was developed by DeepMind, a subsidiary of Google.The program solved 25 geometry problems out of 30 from the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) under competition time limits—a performance almost as good as the average human gold medallist.

  6. Varignon's theorem - Wikipedia

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    An arbitrary quadrilateral and its diagonals. Bases of similar triangles are parallel to the blue diagonal. Ditto for the red diagonal. The base pairs form a parallelogram with half the area of the quadrilateral, A q, as the sum of the areas of the four large triangles, A l is 2 A q (each of the two pairs reconstructs the quadrilateral) while that of the small triangles, A s is a quarter of A ...

  7. Algebraic geometry - Wikipedia

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    Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, to solve geometrical problems.Classically, it studies zeros of multivariate polynomials; the modern approach generalizes this in a few different aspects.

  8. Ptolemy's theorem - Wikipedia

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    Any square can be inscribed in a circle whose center is the center of the square. If the common length of its four sides is equal to a {\displaystyle a} then the length of the diagonal is equal to a 2 {\displaystyle a{\sqrt {2}}} according to the Pythagorean theorem , and Ptolemy's relation obviously holds.

  9. Langley's Adventitious Angles - Wikipedia

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    adventitious quadrangles problem. A quadrilateral such as BCEF is called an adventitious quadrangle when the angles between its diagonals and sides are all rational angles, angles that give rational numbers when measured in degrees or other units for which the whole circle is a rational number. Numerous adventitious quadrangles beyond the one ...