Napoleon Polygons

نویسندگان

  • Titu Andreescu
  • Vladimir Georgiev
  • Oleg Mushkarov
چکیده

An n-gon is called Napoleon if the centers of the regular ngons erected outwardly on its sides are vertices of a regular n-gon. In this note we obtain a new geometric characterization of Napoleon ngons and give a new proof of the well-known theorem of Barlotti Greber ([1], [3]) that an n-gon is Napoleon if and only if it is affine regular. Moreover, we generalize this theorem by obtaining an analytic characterization of the n-gons leading to a regular n-gon after iterating the above construction k times.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The American Mathematical Monthly

دوره 122  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015