April 30, 2008

Cavalieri’s Principle

Even though I don’t mince words when I proclaim my dislike of geometry, there are times when its simplicity and elegance strike me. Today the geometry teacher at my school was talking about Cavalieri’s Principle. Coincidentally, in my 7th grade math class, we are learning about volumes of prisms, cones, pyramids, and maybe spheres.
It got [...]