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The Secrets of Triangles: A Mathematical Journey is a popular mathematics book on the geometry of triangles. It was written by Alfred S. Posamentier and Ingmar Lehmann [ de ] , and published in 2012 by Prometheus Books .
Triangles has received several critical reviews, garnering positive reviews from sites such as Publishers Weekly and being one of Entertainment Weekly's "Must Pick" books. Blog Critics said that the book "is a tale that is, on the one hand psychologically disturbing, and on the other hand, a story quite beautifully written."
Triangles have many types based on the length of the sides and the angles. A triangle whose sides are all the same length is an equilateral triangle, [3] a triangle with two sides having the same length is an isosceles triangle, [4] [a] and a triangle with three different-length sides is a scalene triangle. [7]
There are several elementary results concerning similar triangles in Euclidean geometry: [9] Any two equilateral triangles are similar. Two triangles, both similar to a third triangle, are similar to each other (transitivity of similarity of triangles). Corresponding altitudes of similar triangles have the same ratio as the corresponding sides.
A pyramid with side length 5 contains 35 spheres. Each layer represents one of the first five triangular numbers. A tetrahedral number, or triangular pyramidal number, is a figurate number that represents a pyramid with a triangular base and three sides, called a tetrahedron.
In mathematics, modern triangle geometry, or new triangle geometry, is the body of knowledge relating to the properties of a triangle discovered and developed roughly since the beginning of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Triangles and their properties were the subject of investigation since at least the time of Euclid.
Solution of triangles (Latin: solutio triangulorum) is the main trigonometric problem of finding the characteristics of a triangle (angles and lengths of sides), when some of these are known. The triangle can be located on a plane or on a sphere. Applications requiring triangle solutions include geodesy, astronomy, construction, and navigation.
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