A gallery of conics by five elements

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Authors Paris Pamfilos

Publication date 13 November 2014

Published in Forum Geometricorum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://forumgeom.fau.edu/FG2014volume14/FG201431index.html

zbMATH Keywords

Brianchon's theoremcommon harmonics of two pairs of collinear pointsDesargues' theorem for pencils of conicsDesargues' theorem for ranges of conicseleven point coniceleven tangent conicgeometry of conicsinvolutory projectivityPascal's theorempencil of conicsPlücker's theoremquadratic transformationrange of conics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry (51M15)

Review text

This paper addresses the beginner in constructive geometry of conics in the projectively extended real affine plane; the author offers an extensive training in dealing with infinite elements and with duality. The main task says: A conic \(c\) is given by five points in general position; construct a further point of the conic (is done via Pascal's theorem). The author discusses all further eleven (not necessarily unique) determinations of a conic by points and tangents using well-known theorems which are listed above as keywords.NEWLINENEWLINEOccasionally the author leaves the frame of plane geometry and employs descriptive geometry when a task is solved by spacial interpretation.NEWLINENEWLINEThe reviewer considers the gallery to be incomplete because the determinations of conics by elements of osculation or hyperosculation are missing.

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