According to the mathematician Hermann Schwarz, there is one triangle that can be inscribed within an acute

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According to the mathematician Hermann Schwarz, there is one triangle that can be inscribed within an acute triangle such that it has a minimal perimeter. Using two planar mirrors, a laserbeam, and Fermat’s Principle, explain how you can show that this inscribed triangle has its vertices at the points where the altitudes of the acute triangle intersect its corresponding sides.

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Optics

ISBN: 978-0133977226

5th edition

Authors: Eugene Hecht

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