Elementary surprises in projective geometry

DOI10.1007/S00283-010-9137-8zbMATH Open1204.51024arXiv0910.1952OpenAlexW2061915695MaRDI QIDQ608931FDOQ608931

Authors: Richard Evan Schwartz, S. Tabachnikov 

Publication date: 29 November 2010

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

Abstract: We discuss eight new(?) configuration theorems of classical projective geometry in the spirit of the Pappus and Pascal theorems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.1952

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zbMATH Keywords

pentagram mapcircumscribed polygoninscribed polygon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Descriptive geometry (educational aspects) (97G80)

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