Mathematical Problem Solving (Putnam Seminar)

Three lines labeled as a, b, and c inside a triangle.

This is an equilateral triangle. Can you find all points x in the triangle that minimize the sum a + b + c of the distances a, b, c of x from the three sides of the triangle? (Image adapted by MIT OpenCourseWare from Supplementary Problems #3 (PDF).)

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18.A34

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Fall 2018

Level

Undergraduate

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This course is a seminar intended for undergraduate students who enjoy solving challenging mathematical problems, and to prepare them for the Putnam Competition. All students officially registered in the class are required to participate in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.

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Yufei Zhao. 18.A34 Mathematical Problem Solving (Putnam Seminar). Fall 2018. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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