The Wonder Book of Geometry by David Acheson

Author:David Acheson [Acheson, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780192585387
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2020-08-20T00:00:00+00:00

According to legend, Queen Dido arrived at the North African coast in about 800 bc, and was granted as much land there as she could encompass with an ox-hide.

She promptly cut the ox-hide into very thin strips, and stitched them all into one very long strip, but this still left her with a problem.

With reference to Fig. 138, the problem is to maximize the shaded area by varying the points A, B, and the shape of the curve C, while keeping the length of the curve C fixed.

Fig. 138 Dido’s problem (with a straight coastline).

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