Miquel’s pentagon theorem
by John from John D. Cook on (#78TM8)
An earlier post presented an elegant plane geometry theorem discovered by the 19th century school teacher Auguste Miquel. This post presents his pentagon theorem.
Start with a pentagon. It may be irregular, but it needs to be convex.
Extend each of the sides of the pentagon to form a star, then draw give circles, one through each of the triangles formed by a side of the pentagon and a vertex of the star.
The five circles intersect in pairs at ten points: the five vertices of the pentagon and five new points. The five new points lie on a circle.
The converse of this theorem is known as the five circles theorem.
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