enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Special cases of Apollonius' problem - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_cases_of_Apollonius...

    To construct the perpendicular bisector of the line segment between two points requires two circles, each centered on an endpoint and passing through the other endpoint (operation 2). The intersection points of these two circles (operation 4) are equidistant from the endpoints. The line through them (operation 1) is the perpendicular bisector.

  3. Regiomontanus' angle maximization problem - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiomontanus'_angle...

    In mathematics, the Regiomontanus's angle maximization problem, is a famous optimization problem [1] posed by the 15th-century German mathematician Johannes Müller [2] (also known as Regiomontanus). The problem is as follows: The two dots at eye level are possible locations of the viewer's eye. A painting hangs from a wall.

  4. Perpendicular - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpendicular

    The segment AB is perpendicular to the segment CD because the two angles it creates (indicated in orange and blue) are each 90 degrees. The segment AB can be called the perpendicular from A to the segment CD, using "perpendicular" as a noun. The point B is called the foot of the perpendicular from A to segment CD, or simply, the foot of A on CD ...

  5. Concurrent lines - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_lines

    In a triangle, four basic types of sets of concurrent lines are altitudes, angle bisectors, medians, and perpendicular bisectors: A triangle's altitudes run from each vertex and meet the opposite side at a right angle. The point where the three altitudes meet is the orthocenter.

  6. Langley's Adventitious Angles - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langley's_Adventitious_Angles

    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 ...

  7. Orthogonality - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonality

    The line segments AB and CD are perpendicular to each other. In mathematics, orthogonality is the generalization of the geometric notion of perpendicularity.Although many authors use the two terms perpendicular and orthogonal interchangeably, the term perpendicular is more specifically used for lines and planes that intersect to form a right angle, whereas orthogonal is used in generalizations ...

  8. Carnot's theorem (perpendiculars) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot's_theorem...

    Carnot's theorem: if three perpendiculars on triangle sides intersect in a common point F, then blue area = red area. Carnot's theorem (named after Lazare Carnot) describes a necessary and sufficient condition for three lines that are perpendicular to the (extended) sides of a triangle having a common point of intersection.

  9. Right angle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_angle

    The straight lines which form right angles are called perpendicular. [8] Euclid uses right angles in definitions 11 and 12 to define acute angles (those smaller than a right angle) and obtuse angles (those greater than a right angle). [9] Two angles are called complementary if their sum is a right angle. [10]