Pentagramma mirificum and elliptic functions (Napier, Gauss, Poncelet, Jacobi, )

DOI10.5802/AFST.1375zbMATH Open1275.33026arXiv1106.3633OpenAlexW2314855079MaRDI QIDQ355226FDOQ355226

Authors: Vadim Schechtman 

Publication date: 24 July 2013

Published in: Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse. Mathématiques. Série VI (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give an exposition of fragments from Gauss [G] where he discovered, with the help of some work of Jacobi, a remarkable connection between Napier pentagons on the sphere and Poncelet pentagons on the plane. As a corollary we find a parametrization in elliptic functions of the classical dilogarithm five-term relation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3633

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic functions and integrals (33E05) Linear incidence geometry (51A99)

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