Alhazen's problem

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Alhazen's problem by Wikipedia Bot 0
Alhazen's problem, named after the medieval Arab mathematician and physicist Ibn al-Haytham (known as Alhazen), addresses the challenge of determining the position of a point light source based on the angles of incidence and reflection in a concave mirror. Specifically, it involves finding the location of a point source of light (such as a candle) outside a spherical mirror when given the angles at which the light reflects off the mirror's surface.

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