Kissing Circles: Jakob Steiner, part 2

Authors

  • Pavel Leischner Pedagogical Faculty, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice

Abstract

The article introduces the reader to the first known derivation of Descartes relationship among the radii of four circles touching each other. It comes from Jakob Steiner, who was studying Book~4 of the Pappus Collection and generalized it for every possible configurations.

Published

2017-04-30

How to Cite

Leischner, P. (2017). Kissing Circles: Jakob Steiner, part 2. MATHEMATICS–PHYSICS–INFORMATICS, 26(3), 161–166. Retrieved from https://www.mfi.upol.cz/index.php/mfi/article/view/335

Issue

Section

Mathematics