Talk:Lemoine point
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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Felix QW (talk • contribs) 13:04, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
method of construction not yet incorporated into this article
editRobert K. Smither, while a graduate student in Physics at Yale in the 1950's, used the symmedian point of a triangle in his technical support for a project of the U.S. Navy for mine-sweeping harbors (harbors that enemy planes would possibly be parachuting mines into). His use of the symmedian point was something realized after the fact. That is, he did not set out to use the symmedian point in this way, but rather simply did a deep dive into the data and came up with a technique which, upon inspection, was found to involve the symmedian point. Regarding the symmedian point, it was further realized that he accomplished even more than its innovative use in national defense, namely, that he had (again, inadvertently) devised a new way of arriving at the symmedian point. He reports this professional experience of his in the article, 'The Symmedian Point: Constructed and Applied', which appeared in THE COLLEGE MATHEMATICS JOURNAL (VOL. 42, NO. 2, March 2011). This article is also available online at: https://maa.org/sites/default/files/Smither-CMJ-2011.pdf Kontribuanto (talk) 18:04, 21 October 2023 (UTC)