- Session A
Let be the lengths of the sides of a triangle, let , and be the radius of the inscribed circle. Find the upper bound of [ \frac{1}{(p-a)^2} + \frac{1}{(p-b)^2} + \frac{1}{(p-c)^2} ] in terms of the radius.
William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 1966.
Let be the lengths of the sides of a triangle, let , and be the radius of the inscribed circle. Find the upper bound of [ \frac{1}{(p-a)^2} + \frac{1}{(p-b)^2} + \frac{1}{(p-c)^2} ] in terms of the radius.
Let a convex polygon be contained in a square of side 1. Find the upper bound of the sum of the squares of the sides of .