The Cramer-Castillon problem and Urquhart's `most elementary' theorem. (Q960581)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5480871
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5480871 |
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The Cramer-Castillon problem and Urquhart's `most elementary' theorem. (English)
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22 December 2008
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Summary: A very old branch of mathematics, elementary plane geometry, is still full of mysteries. For instance, there is no elegant elementary proof for the ``most'' elementary theorem by Urquhart: ``Let the points \(APQ\), \(ARS\), \(PBS\) and \(QBR\) lie on straight lines, then \(AP + PB = AR + RB\) implies \(AQ + QB = AS + SB\)''. The proof given here uses the Möbius transform which formerly has been invented for another famous problem, the ``Cramer-Castillon problem''. The article arose from an elementary course of lectures on geometry.
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