Four Vignettes on Apparent Size

2018/11/26 by Finch, Steven R.
#51M04 #60D05 (Primary) 26A06 #62E15 #97G60 (Secondary) #FOS: Mathematics #History and Overview (math.HO)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1811.10593

Abstract

Problems in optimization and geometric probability are discussed, all connected with angles subtended at an observer's eye by an object at a distance. Several of these remain unsolved.

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