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A sphere, a surface of constant radius and thus diameter, is a surface of constant width. Contrary to common belief the Reuleaux tetrahedron is not a surface of constant width. However, there are two different ways of smoothing subsets of the edges of the Reuleaux tetrahedron to form Meissner tetrahedra, surfaces of constant
Every body of constant width has a curve of constant width as its boundary, and every curve of constant width has a body of constant width as its convex hull. [2] [3] Another equivalent way to define the width of a compact curve or of a convex set is by looking at its orthogonal projection onto a line.
where C is the circumference of a circle, d is the diameter, and r is the radius.More generally, = where L and w are, respectively, the perimeter and the width of any curve of constant width.
The first mathematician to discover the existence of curves of constant width, and to observe that the Reuleaux triangle has constant width, may have been Leonhard Euler. [5] In a paper that he presented in 1771 and published in 1781 entitled De curvis triangularibus , Euler studied curvilinear triangles as well as the curves of constant width ...
All curves of constant width have the same perimeter, the same value πw as the circumference of a circle with that width (this is Barbier's theorem). Therefore, every surface of constant width is also a surface of constant girth: its girth in all directions is the same number πw. Hermann Minkowski proved, conversely, that every convex surface ...
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Surface of constant width; This page was last edited on 9 November 2020, at 07:49 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...