2008.03.31
I Love Maths
I love math, despite my serious deficiencies in that realm. So when I saw this geometry puzzler, dubbed the world’s hardest easy geometry puzzle, I had to try my hand at it.
And I’m still working on it, three hours into the problem. I see the solution but I am having problems getting to the proof and it’s driving me bonkers. Tonight I will tackle it again from scratch since my original paper is covered in lines, intersections, and too many labels and numbers. I can’t read it anymore!
Give it a go… It’s deceptively difficult.
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5 Responses to “I Love Maths”
- Jordan says (March 31st, 2008 at 19:26:16 )
I think I got it! I knew having a degree in number theory would one day allow me to solve geometry combined with a system of equations.
- Nob Hill Ken says (March 31st, 2008 at 21:45:54 )
U can haz maths.
Do not want!
- Pedro Alicea says (April 1st, 2008 at 02:19:52 )
I got it!!! I knew that there was a reason for having a B.S.M.E.
I just realized what my degree says and now I am sad. :(
- douglas says (April 2nd, 2008 at 21:24:11 )
The sad thing is that I know what the answer is but I haven’t yet made a proof for that answer. Sadly I also haven’t made much time for it yet.
I hope you all haven’t been using trig to figure this out!
- Jordan says (April 2nd, 2008 at 23:25:16 )
I did 80% of it with pure geometric theorems and finally ended up with a system of four equations with four unknowns.
I took the liberty of assuming that the interior angle of triangles, alternate interior angles and angular relations of line intersections were all given theorems. No need to reprove the wheel.
