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  2. Napkin ring problem - Wikipedia

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    Lines, L. (1965), Solid geometry: With Chapters on Space-lattices, Sphere-packs and Crystals, Dover. Reprint of 1935 edition. A problem on page 101 describes the shape formed by a sphere with a cylinder removed as a "napkin ring" and asks for a proof that the volume is the same as that of a sphere with diameter equal to the length of the hole.

  3. Sphere - Wikipedia

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    A sphere (from Greek σφαῖρα, sphaîra) [1] is a geometrical object that is a three-dimensional analogue to a two-dimensional circle.Formally, a sphere is the set of points that are all at the same distance r from a given point in three-dimensional space. [2]

  4. On the Sphere and Cylinder - Wikipedia

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    On the Sphere and Cylinder (Greek: Περὶ σφαίρας καὶ κυλίνδρου) is a treatise that was published by Archimedes in two volumes c. 225 BCE. [1] It most notably details how to find the surface area of a sphere and the volume of the contained ball and the analogous values for a cylinder, and was the first to do so. [2]

  5. Spherical geometry - Wikipedia

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    Since spherical geometry violates the parallel postulate, there exists no such triangle on the surface of a sphere. The sum of the angles of a triangle on a sphere is 180°(1 + 4f), where f is the fraction of the sphere's surface that is enclosed by the triangle.

  6. Kepler conjecture - Wikipedia

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    The volume of the Voronoi polyhedron of a sphere in a packing of equal spheres is at least the volume of a regular dodecahedron with inradius 1. McLaughlin's proof, [13] for which he received the 1999 Morgan Prize. A related problem, whose proof uses similar techniques to Hales' proof of the Kepler conjecture. Conjecture by L. Fejes Tóth in ...

  7. The Method of Mechanical Theorems - Wikipedia

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    Subtracting the volume of the cone from the volume of the cylinder gives the volume of the sphere: V S = 4 π − 8 3 π = 4 3 π . {\displaystyle V_{S}=4\pi -{8 \over 3}\pi ={4 \over 3}\pi .} The dependence of the volume of the sphere on the radius is obvious from scaling, although that also was not trivial to make rigorous back then.

  8. Spherical segment - Wikipedia

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    The surface of the spherical segment (excluding the bases) is called spherical zone. Geometric parameters for spherical segment. If the radius of the sphere is called R , the radii of the spherical segment bases are a and b , and the height of the segment (the distance from one parallel plane to the other) called h , then the volume of the ...

  9. Cauchy's theorem (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    The Connelly sphere, a flexible non-convex polyhedron homeomorphic to a 2-sphere, was discovered by Robert Connelly in 1977. [2] [3] Although originally proven by Cauchy in three dimensions, the theorem was extended to dimensions higher than 3 by Alexandrov (1950).