A General Method for Establishing Geometric Inequalities in a Triangle

DOI10.2307/2695243MaRDI QIDQ2730813zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. A. Satnoianu

Publication date 29 July 2001

Published in American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2695243

zbMATH Keywords

geometric inequalitiesisosceles triangletrigonometric functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Inequalities and extremum problems in real or complex geometry (51M16)

Review text

The author describes a general principle for simplifying proofs of a large class of geometric inequalities referring to triangles. The geometric background is given by the reduction from general triangles to isosceles ones, i.e., to establish some inequality \(f(a,b,c)\geq 0\) (with \(a,b,c\) denoting the measures of the angles of a given triangle) it is in many cases easier to verify \(f(a,b,c)\geq f\left(a,\frac{b+c}{2} ,\frac{b+c}{2}\right)\geq 0\). A collection of examples is presented, most of them published in the MONTHLY over that last four decades, and it is underlined that the method works for many further inequalities, too.

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