Solving the Ladder Problem on the Back of an Envelope

DOI10.1080/0025570X.2007.11953477MaRDI QIDQ3635814zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dan Kalman

Publication date 6 July 2009

Published in Mathematics Magazine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.jstor.org/pss/27643023

zbMATH Keywords

envelopes of families of curvesisoperimetric variational problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to real functions (26-01) Mathematics teaching methods and classroom techniques (97D40)

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