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

Vadim Schechtman (2013)

Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques

We give an exposition of unpublished fragments of Gauss where he discovered (using a work of Jacobi) a remarkable connection between Napier pentagons on the sphere and Poncelet pentagons on the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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