The Fermat-Steiner Problem

DOI10.2307/2695644MaRDI QIDQ4417733zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shay Gueron, Ran J. Tessler

Publication date 29 July 2003

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2695644

zbMATH Keywords

Fermat-Steiner problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry (51M15)

Review text

The authors present the history of the Fermat-Steiner problem and of its weighted generalization, asking for the position of a point for which the sum of the three (weighted) distances to the vertices of a triangle is minimal. They provide Torricelli's, Hofmann's, and a mechanical solution, as well as necessary and sufficient conditions for the point for which the minimum is achieved to be an interior point of the given triangle.

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