Making Ellipses by Folding Disks

DOI10.1080/0025570X.2021.1849923zbMath1467.51012MaRDI QIDQ4997106

Pamela Gorkin, Andrew Shaffer

Publication date: 28 June 2021

Published in: Mathematics Magazine (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

ellipse; Poncelet's theorem; sequential folding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

30D05: Functional equations in the complex plane, iteration and composition of analytic functions of one complex variable

51M04: Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries

51M15: Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry

30J10: Blaschke products