Showing posts with label Geometry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geometry. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

This is not really a post

A math problem I picked up while I was in the math lounge today:

Given a simple closed curve in the 2-dimensional plane, can one always find a square whose four vertices lie on the curve? (We found a nice proof for the case when the square is replaced by a rectangle. I don't know if one exists for the squares.)

First person to solve this problem gets... to be my hero. Or not :P