Centers of mass of Poncelet polygons, 200 years after

DOI10.1007/S00283-016-9622-9zbMATH Open1351.01013arXiv1607.04766OpenAlexW2963749715MaRDI QIDQ317016FDOQ317016

S. Tabachnikov, Richard Evan Schwartz

Publication date: 30 September 2016

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

Abstract: The locus of the centers of mass of the family of Poncelet polygons, inscribed into a conic $Gamma$ and circumscribed about a conic $gamma$, is a conic homothetic to $Gamma$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04766

zbMATH Keywords

centres of massPoncelet polygonsWeill's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of geometry (51-03)

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