17 Jul
2015
17 Jul
'15
6:46 p.m.
On 2015-07-17 09:05, James Propp wrote:
The essay is now live, at https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2015/07/15/the-lessons-of-a-square-wheeled... .
(I removed the calculations that initially gave me trouble; I eventually got them to come out right, but I couldn't muster much enthusiasm for them, so I figured my readers wouldn't either.)
Comments are welcome, especially those that I might be able to apply in future columns. The intended audience is the sort of people who read Martin Gardner's column.
Jim Propp ___________ Couldn't you make a trike with a square front wheel, and respectively three-cornered (convex?) and five-cornered (concave?) rear wheels with curved sides? Maybe all the corners could be right angles. --rwg