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Young men should prove theorems; old men should write books. Quoted by Freeman Dyson in Freeman Dyson: Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer. Interview with Donald J. Albers, The College Mathematics Journal, vol. 25, No. 1, January 1994. |
Loci: ConvergenceMathematical TreasuresOn Triangles, by Regiomontanus
This is the title page of On Triangles by Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller) (1436-1476). Although the work was written in 1464, it was not published until 1533. The page can be translated as follows:
A complete translation and analysis of On Triangles is available in Barnabas Hughes, trans., Regiomontanus on Triangles (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967).
This page contains theorems 12 and 13 of Book II of On Triangles:
Theorem 12: If the perpendicular is given and the base and the ratio of the sides are known, then each side is known.
Theorem 13: If each of the segments of the base is known and also the ratio of the sides, then each side and the perpendicular may be found.
There is a calculation in the margin by an owner of this book. It would be interesting to work out the details. |