CTK Insights

18 Jun

Square in a circle inscribed in a square

square in a circle inscribed in a square

Here's a square inscribed in a circle which in turn is inscribed in a larger square.

What is the ratio between the areas of the two circles? Two and a half millennia ago, Socrates already new the answer.

Related posts:

  1. Isoperimetric Theorem for Rectangles
  2. Homothety between In- and Excircles
  3. A Chain of Circles in a Sangaku and a Generalization

Leave a Reply

*

© 2012 CTK Insights | Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS)

Powered by Wordpress, design by Web4 Sudoku, based on Pinkline by GPS Gazette