A characterization of the rhombus

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Authors Paris Pamfilos

Publication date 24 October 2016

Published in Forum Geometricorum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://forumgeom.fau.edu/FG2016volume16/FG201640index.html

zbMATH Keywords

congruent trianglesrhombus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)

Review text

Calling two triangles congruent if the side lengths of the first are equal, in some order, to the side lengths of the other, the author of the paper under review proves that a (non-degenerate) quadrilateral is a rhombus if and only if there exists a point \(P\) in its plane for which the triangles \(PAB\), \(PBC\), \(PCD\), and \(PDA\) are congruent. Follows immediately from the fact that if \(XYZ\) and \(X'Y'Z'\) are congruent, and if \(XZ=X'Z'\) and \(XY \neq X'Y'\), then \(XY=Y'Z'\) and \(YZ=X'Y'\). Thus, assuming that \(PAB\), \(PBC\), \(PCD\), and \(PDA\) are congruent and that \(AB \neq AD\), one can easily reach a contradiction.NEWLINENEWLINEThe proof can further be shortened by results of the reviewer.NEWLINENEWLINEIn spite of this, the result is a welcome addition to the literature pertaining to characterizations of special types of quadrilaterals.

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