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Hexagons with opposite sides parallel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Christopher J. Bradley*
Affiliation:
6a Northcote Road, Bristol BS8 3HB

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This paper presents a number of theorems about hexagons whose three pairs of opposite sides are parallel. The first of these is a well-known result that the vertices of such a hexagon lie on a conic. Theorems 3 and 4 show how such conies are related to the Cevians of a triangle, and which Cevians lead to such conies being circles. When they are circles they are called Tucker circles. None of the results is at all obvious, yet it seems that some of the results presented here were known in the late nineteenth century or the early twentieth century. They seem to be of more than passing interest which should not get lost by the passage of time.

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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 2006

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