by Robert K. Smither
This article originally appeared in:
College Mathematics Journal
March, 2011
Subject classification(s):
Geometry and Topology | Plane Geometry | TrianglesApplicable Course(s):
4.9 GeometryThe author relates a personal story of a post-WWII assignment in the U.S. Navy. His analysis of data from a test of a harbor mine-detecting algorithm leads to a novel construction of the symmedian point - the point that minimizes the sum of the squares of the distances to the sides of a triangle.
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