Reflections on Reflection in a Spherical Mirror
The author considers Alhazen's Billiard Problem whose originally spatial version is in fact reducible to a two-dimensional problem: given a circular mirror \(C\) and points \(A\), \(B\) in its plane (and on the same side of it), find the point \(P\in C\) where the ray coming from \(A\) is reflected at \(C\) such that it is going to \(B\). Typically, there are two or four such reflection points, and methods to find them are well-known. As the author points out, it seems to be true that the question for ruler and compass constructions of such points \(P\) was not touched until now. With this motivation in mind, he proves that in general there is no ruler and compass approach to such reflection points.
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