Grad Student Talk: An Infinite Family of Triangles

Abstract: This will be a gentle discussion about my favorite theorem, Poncelet’s Porism. My goal is to provide intuition about the content of this theorem by focusing on a special case involving triangles. I’ll introduce spherical and hyperbolic geometry and discuss an application of the Porism in spaces of constant curvature. I will also explain what the Porism means to me personally and present a Porism-inspired art piece.

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