Pentagramma mirificum and elliptic functions (Napier, Gauss, Poncelet, Jacobi, ...)

Vadim Schechtman[1]

  • [1] Institut des Mathématiques de Toulouse, UPS, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France

Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques (2013)

  • Volume: 22, Issue: 2, page 353-375
  • ISSN: 0240-2963

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We give an exposition of unpublished fragments of Gauss where he discovered (using a work of Jacobi) a remarkable connection between Napier pentagons on the sphere and Poncelet pentagons on the plane. As a corollary we find a parametrization in elliptic functions of the classical dilogarithm five-term relation.

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Schechtman, Vadim. "Pentagramma mirificum and elliptic functions (Napier, Gauss, Poncelet, Jacobi, ...)." Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques 22.2 (2013): 353-375. <http://eudml.org/doc/275393>.

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