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Malfatti's assumption that the two problems are equivalent is incorrect. Lob and Richmond (), who went back to the original Italian text, observed that for some triangles a larger area can be achieved by a greedy algorithm that inscribes a single circle of maximal radius within the triangle, inscribes a second circle within one of the three remaining corners of the triangle, the one with the ...
Draw three circumcircles (Miquel's circles) to triangles AB´C´, A´BC´, and A´B´C. Miquel's theorem states that these circles intersect in a single point M, called the Miquel point. In addition, the three angles MA´B, MB´C and MC´A (green in the diagram) are all equal, as are the three supplementary angles MA´C, MB´A and MC´B. [2] [3]
The vertices of every triangle fall on a circle called the circumcircle. (Because of this, some authors define "concyclic" only in the context of four or more points on a circle.) [2] Several other sets of points defined from a triangle are also concyclic, with different circles; see Nine-point circle [3] and Lester's theorem.
[4] Consider four points with no three of them being on a common line. Then you can build four different subsets of three points. Take the points of such a subset as the vertices of a triangle and the fourth point as the point , then they define a pedal circle. The four pedal circles you get this way intersect in a common point. [3]
Kissing circles. Given three mutually tangent circles (black), there are, in general, two possible answers (red) as to what radius a fourth tangent circle can have.In geometry, Descartes' theorem states that for every four kissing, or mutually tangent circles, the radii of the circles satisfy a certain quadratic equation.
Circular triangles give the solution to an isoperimetric problem in which one seeks a curve of minimum length that encloses three given points and has a prescribed area. When the area is at least as large as the circumcircle of the points, the solution is any circle of that area surrounding the points. For smaller areas, the optimal curve will ...
The three lines joining a vertex to the point of contact of the circumcircle with the corresponding mixtilinear incircle meet at the external center of similitude of the incircle and circumcircle. [3] The Online Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers lists this point as X(56). [6]
The nine-point circle passes through these three midpoints; thus, it is the circumcircle of the medial triangle. These two circles meet in a single point, where they are tangent to each other. That point of tangency is the Feuerbach point of the triangle. Associated with the incircle of a triangle are three more circles, the excircles. These ...