Three theorems of Menelaus

DOI10.1080/00029890.2019.1604052MaRDI QIDQ4967778zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Athanase Papadopoulos

Publication date 11 July 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2019.1604052

zbMATH Keywords

spherical trianglestheorems of Menelaus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (51M09)

Recommendations

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• Thābit ibn Qurra's treatise on the ``sector figure
• The sector theorem attributed to Menelaus
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• On Menelaus' \textit{Spherics} III.5 in Arabic mathematics. I: Ibn `Irāq
• On Menelaus' \textit{Spherics} III.5 in Arabic mathematics. II: Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī and Ibn Abī Jarrāda
• Spaces with non-positive curvature

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• The astronomical content of Menelaos' \textit{Spherics}
• Monotonicity in spherical and hyperbolic triangles
• Thābit ibn Qurra's treatise on the ``sector figure
• The sector theorem attributed to Menelaus
• Spherical geometry -- a survey on width and thickness of convex bodies
• On Menelaus' \textit{Spherics} III.5 in Arabic mathematics. II: Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī and Ibn Abī Jarrāda
• On Menelaus' \textit{Spherics} III.5 in Arabic mathematics. I: Ibn `Irāq
• Traces of Menelaus' \textit{Sphaerica} in Greek scholia to the \textit{Almagest}

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