Timeline for Reference question: Poncelet theorem
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| Feb 15, 2013 at 18:34 | comment | added | Olga | Yes, you are right, I wanted to ask about this theorem. | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 18:34 | vote | accept | Olga | ||
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| Feb 8, 2013 at 11:46 | comment | added | Benoît Kloeckner | We are talking about the same result (although it has been extended to ellipses), but this is not what the OP asked about: "in elliptic billiard all n-periodic trajectories are tangent to some ellipse" which is a much more elementary result. That's why I think the OP has a misconception. | |
| Feb 7, 2013 at 22:47 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | @Benoît Kloeckner: the theorem which Poncelet proved in jail, and was published in the 1822 book I mentioned is stated here: komal.hu/lap/2002-ang/poncelet.e.shtml are we talking about different things? | |
| Feb 7, 2013 at 19:44 | history | answered | Benoît Kloeckner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |