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Arbelos

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Properties
Area Proof Rectangle Tangents Archimedes' circles
Etymology
See also
References
Bibliography
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In geometry, an arbelos is a plane region bounded by three semicircles with three apexes such that each corner of each semicircle is shared with one of the others (connected), all on the same side of a straight line (the baseline) that contains their diameters.^[1]

The earliest known reference to this figure is in the Book of Lemmas, where some of its mathematical properties are stated as Propositions 4 through 8.^[2]

The word arbelos is Greek for 'shoemaker's knife'.

Properties

Two of the semicircles are necessarily concave, with arbitrary diameters a and b; the third semicircle is convex, with diameter a+b.^[1]

Area

The area of the arbelos is equal to the area of a circle with diameter .

Proof: For the proof, reflect the arbelos over the line through the points

and

, and observe that twice the area of the arbelos is what remains when the areas of the two smaller circles (with diameters

) are subtracted from the area of the large circle (with diameter

). Since the area of a circle is proportional to the square of the diameter (Euclid's Elements, Book XII, Proposition 2; we do not need to know that the constant of proportionality is

), the problem reduces to showing that

. The length

equals the sum of the lengths

and

, so this equation simplifies algebraically to the statement that

. Thus the claim is that the length of the segment

is the geometric mean of the lengths of the segments

and

. Now (see Figure) the triangle

, being inscribed in the semicircle, has a right angle at the point

(Euclid, Book III, Proposition 31), and consequently

is indeed a "mean proportional" between

and

(Euclid, Book VI, Proposition 8, Porism). This proof approximates the ancient Greek argument; Harold P. Boas cites a paper of Roger B. Nelsen^[1] who implemented the idea as a proof without words.^[2]

Rectangle

Let and be the points where the segments and intersect the semicircles and , respectively. The quadrilateral is actually a rectangle.

Proof: The angles , , and are right angles because they are inscribed in semicircles (by Thales' theorem). The quadrilateral therefore has three right angles, so it is a rectangle. Q.E.D.

Tangents

The line is tangent to semicircle at and semicircle at .

Proof: Since angle BDA is a right angle, angle DBA equals π/2 minus angle DAB. However, angle DAH also equals π/2 minus angle DAB (since angle HAB is a right angle). Therefore triangles DBA and DAH are similar. Therefore angle DIA equals angle DOH, where I is the midpoint of BA and O is the midpoint of AH. But AOH is a straight line, so angle DOH and DOA are supplementary angles. Therefore the sum of angles DIA and DOA is π. Angle IAO is a right angle. The sum of the angles in any quadrilateral is 2π, so in quadrilateral IDOA, angle IDO must be a right angle. But ADHE is a rectangle, so the midpoint O of AH (the rectangle's diagonal) is also the midpoint of DE (the rectangle's other diagonal). As I (defined as the midpoint of BA) is the center of semicircle BA, and angle IDE is a right angle, then DE is tangent to semicircle BA at D. By analogous reasoning DE is tangent to semicircle AC at E. Q.E.D.

Archimedes' circles

The altitude divides the arbelos into two regions, each bounded by a semicircle, a straight line segment, and an arc of the outer semicircle. The circles inscribed in each of these regions, known as the Archimedes' circles of the arbelos, have the same size.

Etymology

The name arbelos comes from Greek ἡ ἄρβηλος he árbēlos or ἄρβυλος árbylos, meaning "shoemaker's knife", a knife used by cobblers from antiquity to the current day, whose blade is said to resemble the geometric figure.

References

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Bibliography

{{cite book | author = Johnson, R. A. | year = 1960 | title = Advanced Euclidean Geometry: An elementary treatise on the geometry of the triangle and the circle | edition = reprint of 1929 edition by Houghton Miflin | publisher = Dover Publications | location = New York | isbn = 978-0-486-46237-0 | pages = 116–117}}
{{Cite book | authorlink = C. Stanley Ogilvy | last = Ogilvy | first = C. S. | year = 1990 | title = Excursions in Geometry | publisher = Dover | isbn = 0-486-26530-7 | pages = 51–54 | postscript = }}
{{cite arXiv |last=Sondow | first = J. |eprint=1210.2279 |class=math.HO |title=The parbelos, a parabolic analog of the arbelos|year=2012}} American Mathematical Monthly, 120 (2013), 929-935.
{{cite book | last = Wells | first = D. | year = 1991 | title = The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry | publisher = Penguin Books | location = New York | isbn = 0-14-011813-6 | pages = 5–6}}

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