E79 -- Problema geometricum propositum publice ab Anonymo Geometra

(A Problem of geometry proposed publicly by an anonymous geometer)

Summary:

Almost certainly Euler's shortest publication, this paper is only 8 lines long in the Nova Acta Eruditorum. As the title suggests, the entire work is the proposal of a geometry problem. In particular, the problem involves finding all curves that have a certain reflection property that Euler describes. Euler himself solved this problem two years later, in E106.

Publication:

Originally published in Nova acta eruditorum 1745, 1745, p. 523
Opera Omnia: Series 1, Volume 27, p. 50

Documents Available:

Original publication: E079
A rough draft of a transcription and translation, along with a few notes, have been written by Ed Sandifer.

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