Date of Award

4-1935

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Department

Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science

First Advisor

Harvey P. Pettit

Abstract

The Brocard points, two remarkable points related to a triangle, were first noticed in 1816 by August Leopold Crelle. In a paper published in Berlin, he showed how to determine a point inside a triangle, so that the angles (taken in the same order) formed by the lines joining it to the vertices are equal. Investigations were also made by Karl Friedrich Andreas Jacobi (1795-1855) of Pforta, and by some of his pupils. However, interest in these researches died out, and the matter was soon forgotten.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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