
Enveloppe timbrée : problème de géométrie entière | Tangente
♦♦ Enveloppe timbrée


This article is not yet available in English; the French version is shown.


Articles recommended for you.

It is easy to overlook, but many geometric problems can be solved by iterative methods or, more broadly, algorithms. These questions are the subject of computational geometry! This is a vibrant, highly active field in which many seemingly elementary questions still await solutions.

Unlike hexaflexagons, known for their regularity, tetraflexagons, whose faces are squares, have always escaped systematic study. They exhibit several types of cycles, and the complexity of handling them contrasts sharply with the apparent simplicity of their shape.

Leonardo da Vinci was not strictly speaking a mathematician, but the subject interested him, as it did many educated men of the Renaissance. We owe him an elegant proof of the Pythagorean theorem.

It is fairly easy to tell whether or not a subset of the plane is convex.