The Cramer-Castillon problem and Urquhart's `most elementary' theorem.

DOI10.4171/EM/33MaRDI QIDQ960581zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors G. Wanner

Publication date 22 December 2008

Published in Elemente der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/EM/33

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)

Review text

Summary: A very old branch of mathematics, elementary plane geometry, is still full of mysteries. For instance, there is no elegant elementary proof for the ``most elementary theorem by Urquhart: ``Let the points \(APQ\), \(ARS\), \(PBS\) and \(QBR\) lie on straight lines, then \(AP + PB = AR + RB\) implies \(AQ + QB = AS + SB\). The proof given here uses the Möbius transform which formerly has been invented for another famous problem, the ``Cramer-Castillon problem. The article arose from an elementary course of lectures on geometry.

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