The Spider and the Fly

Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn

Chapter 16 in 3.1416 And All That, 1985, pp 117-122 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract THE NOTION OF A GEODESIC was introduced in “The Band-Aid Principle.” Here, we offer a slight variation to show some repercussions of the theme in the plane. Recall that the problem of the spider and the fly originated from a situation that is illustrated in Figure 1. The hungry spider, located on the west wall at A, wants to find the shortest path along the walls to the juicy fly on the north wall at B.

Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-8519-0_16

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