Kasner meets Poncelet

DOI10.1007/S00283-019-09897-5MaRDI QIDQ2278762zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors S. Tabachnikov

Publication date 10 December 2019

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.09267

zbMATH Keywords

Kasner theorempentagonsPoncelet polygons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of geometry (51-03) Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry (51M15)

Abstract: Given a planar pentagon, construct two new pentagons: the vertices of the first one are the intersection points of the diagonals of the original pentagon, and the vertices of the second one are the tangency points of the conic inscribed in the original pentagon. E. Kasner theorem, published in 1928, asserts that these two operations on pentagons commute. We extend Kasner's result to Poncelet polygons, that is, the polygons inscribed into a conic and circumscribed about a conic.

Review text

Kasner first presented in 1896, and later published with proof in 1928, his theorem concerning what he termed the inscribed and diagonal pentagons constructed from a given pentagon. A number of researchers, including the author, have studied the extension of this theorem to Poncelet polygons. This brief but well-illustrated exposition shows connections between their work including a link to dynamical systems via the pentagram map. References reflect the continuing activity in this field.

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