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MYSTERIES OF THE EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE - HIKARI Ltd

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222 Index<br />

Barbier’s Theorem 56<br />

barrel sharing problems 121-123<br />

Barrow, Isaac 160<br />

barycentric coordinates 33<br />

Basel Problem 161<br />

basic properties 29-30<br />

Bath College 171<br />

Baxter, A. M. 120<br />

Beeckman, Isaac 156<br />

Beeson, M. J. 61<br />

Beethoven, Ludwig van 25<br />

Belarusan Mathematical Olympiad<br />

140<br />

Bell Telephone Laboratories 178<br />

Bent Pyramid (Dashur) 2<br />

Berlin Academy 161<br />

Bernoulli, Daniel 161<br />

Bernoulli, Johann 161<br />

Bertrand, Joseph 166, 185<br />

Bertrand’s Paradox 109, 166<br />

Bessel, F. W. 164<br />

Biefeld-Brown effect 84<br />

billiard ball packing 94<br />

billiard ball problem 118<br />

bination 69<br />

binomial coefficients 59<br />

binomial theorem 160<br />

Biographical Dictionary of Mathematicians<br />

vi<br />

biographical vignettes vi, 148-187<br />

biomimetic antenna (“Bat’s Ear”)<br />

80-81<br />

black hole 84<br />

Blaschke, Josef 175<br />

Blaschke-Lebesgue Theorem 56, 174,<br />

176<br />

Blaschke’s Theorem 45, 176<br />

Blaschke, Wilhelm 45, 175, 186<br />

Blundon’s inequality v, 53<br />

Bodleian Library 150<br />

bombers (triangular) 189<br />

The Book 177<br />

Borda voting 91<br />

Borel, Émile 174<br />

Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso 158<br />

Borromean rings 26<br />

bowling pins (triangular) 192<br />

Brahe, Tycho 155<br />

Brahma 5<br />

Brahms, Johannes 25<br />

Brief Lives 148<br />

Briggs, Henry 148<br />

Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross 21<br />

Brown, T. T. 84<br />

Brunnian link 5<br />

Buchman, E. 70<br />

buckminsterfullerene 176<br />

buckyball 176<br />

Budapest University of Art and Design<br />

128<br />

Buddha 6<br />

Buddhism v<br />

building (triangular) 197<br />

Bulgarian Mathematical Olympiad<br />

139-140<br />

Burgiel, H. 26<br />

butterfly (triangular) 23, 98<br />

Butterfly Map 97-98<br />

Caesariano, Caesare 18-19<br />

Cahill, B. J. S. 97-98<br />

California Institute of Technology 178,<br />

180<br />

Calypso 83<br />

Cambridge University 168, 176, 180<br />

camera obscura 155<br />

Canterbury Puzzles 181<br />

Cantrell, David 45<br />

Cardano, Girolamo 154<br />

cardiac vector 81-82<br />

Carpenter’s Plane 112<br />

cartography vi, 97-98<br />

Case Institute of Technology 180<br />

Castelli, Benedetto 157

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