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On the Polygons Inscribed in one Conic and Circumscribed to Another

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

W. Burnside
Affiliation:
Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Extract

This problem is in general treated in connection with the division of the periods of the elliptic functions. It is the object of the present note to shew, from a purely algebraical point of view, that the condition of closing of the polygon depends solely on a difference equation of the form

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1924

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