Law of cosines generalised for any polygon and any polyhedron

DOI10.1017/S0025557200002953MaRDI QIDQ5277933zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lee A. Collins, Thomas J. Osler

Publication date 12 July 2017

Published in The Mathematical Gazette (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025557200002953

zbMATH Keywords

law of cosines

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20)

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