Solutio problematis maxime curiosi quo inter omnes ellipses quae circa datum triangulum circumscribi possunt ea quaeritur cuius area sit omnium minima

English Title

Solution to a problem of greatest curiosity in which, amongst all ellipses which can be circumscribed around a given triangle, that one is sought, whose area is smallest of all

Authors

• Leonhard Euler

Enestrom Number

692

Fuss Index

350

Original Language

Latin

Topics

Geometry

Published as

Journal article

Published Date

1795

Written Date

1777

Original Source Citation

Nova Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae, Volume 9, pp. 146-153.

Opera Omnia Citation

Series 1, Volume 29, pp.239-246.

Record Created

2018-09-25