(1) CHRISTIAN VON STAUDT'S “Beiträge zur Geometrie der Lage” was published so long ago as 1857; about the year 1871 Felix Klein wrote a series of papers emphasising the fact that it is possible to ...
Arc length is a fraction of circumference. Area of a sector is a fractions of the area of a circle. Both can be calculated using the angle at the centre and the diameter or radius. Practice circle ...
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. This is one of the basic principles of Euclidean geometry. But we live on a spherical Earth, so we cannot travel the straight line path ...