Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-r6qrq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-29T23:34:16.265Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Some properties of Kiepert lines of a triangle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2016

Michael Fox*
Affiliation:
2 Leam Road, Leamington Spa CV31 3PA e-mail: michaelandjean.fox@btinternet.com

Extract

This article describes an investigation into Kiepert lines, and leads to some surprising and little-known relationships between the Fermat, Napoleon and Vecten points of a triangle.

If we draw similar isosceles triangles A'BC, B'CA and C'AB outwards on the sides of a given scalene triangle ABC as in Figure 1, Kiepert's theorem tells us that the lines A'A, B'B and C'C meet in a single point - a Kiepert point [1, Chapter 11]. Since its position depends on the common base angles θ of the isosceles triangles, I label it K(θ), taking θ as the parameter of this point.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 2016 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1.Leversha, Gerry, The Geometry of the Triangle, The United Kingdom Mathematics Trust (2013).Google Scholar
2.Weisstein, Eric W., Vecten points, accessed November 2015 at mathworld.wolfram.com/VectenPoints.htmlGoogle Scholar
3.Casey, John, A treatise on the analytical geometry of the point, line, circle, and conic sections, [Michigan Historic Reprint Series (reprint of 2nd edition)], Hodges & Figgis (1893).Google Scholar