Tangled Triangles - Math Problem Example

The ancient Greeks were aware of this and often used this information in their day-to-day life. Perhaps it all started with the 'Dido's fix' in eighth century BC. However, in most of the cases, these observations were stated with any formal proof backing them. Whether it is a bubble taking a spherical shape to minimize surface energy or the hexagonal shape of honeycomb to maximize honey storage, it has only fuelled the mathematician's interest in questions of Maxima and Minima. Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values