Love Triangle Quotes

“The designers had conceded that rectangles wouldn’t do the job, but manufacturing triangle planes of glass is no small task (a real pane in the glass),”
― Matt Parker, Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World

“A triangle mesh can do anything. Got yourself any surface? Bam: triangles. It’s already done. Triangulating a surface only becomes a problem if there is a restriction on how many different triangles are allowed. This brings us back to the age-old tug of war between architects wanting shapes that are easy to manufacture and engineers wanting shapes that are easy to join together and form a strong building.”
― Matt Parker, Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World

“The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side. – Homer J. Simpson”
― Matt Parker, Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World

“For a triangle to be physically possible, no one side can be longer than the other two combined,”
― Matt Parker, Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World

“I now knew that if a 28-millimeter-tall mini-tower was placed on my 1-to-20,000 map, it would cast exactly the same shadow on Map Tokyo as the Skytree did on Real Tokyo. Multiplying 28 millimeters by 20,000 gave a height of 560 meters. Now that is a tall tower! Over half a kilometer high! Sure, the tower is actually”
― Matt Parker, Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World

“was now looking at two shadows: one made by the actual tower, cast onto the streets of Tokyo, the other made by a ruler on a scale map of the same city.”
― Matt Parker, Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World

“A bunch of interesting science things were obviously discovered blah blah blah. But that is a different story for a different book (one written by my vastly more qualified wife).”
― Matt Parker, Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry

“Dear reader, I need you to believe me that I had already written the chapter about triangle laws where I called Heron’s Formula stupid (because it is) when I read the official HP documentation for this technique, and came across the sentence ‘The area of a triangle is given by Heron’s formula.’ I honestly just pushed back my chair, stood up, and silently left the room to go for a walk outside. The next time you print from your phone, know that both it and your printer are searching through a tetrahedron mesh and applying Heron’s now-no-longer-as-stupid Formula.”
― Matt Parker, Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World