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Brianchon and Poncelet’s joint memoir, the nine-point circle, and beyond (2022)

Del Centina, Andrea (Author)

Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Volume: 76
Issue: 4
Pages: 363-390

DOI: 10.1007/s00407-022-00286-7

URI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-022-00286-7

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Scientific collaboration Mathematics Geometry Conic sections 19th century Poncelet, Jean Victor Brianchon, Charles Julien

In this paper, we give a thorough account of Brianchon and Poncelet’s joint memoir on equilateral hyperbolas subject to four given conditions, focusing on the most significant theorems expounded therein, and the determination of the “nine-point circle”. We also discuss about the origin of this very rare example of collaborative work for the time, and the general challenge of finding the nature of the loci described by the centres of the conic sections required to pass through m points and to be tangent to n straight lines given in position, m + n = 4, which was posed at the end of their work. In the case m = 4, i.e. when the conic sections have to pass through the vertices of a quadrilateral, the locus of centres is another conic section passing through the intersection points of the opposite sides and the two diagonals of the quadrilateral, respectively, and, as Gergonne showed analytically shortly after, through other significant points connected with the quadrilateral; this curve was later given the name of the “nine-point conic”, being a natural generalization of the above mentioned circle.

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