The Fuhrmann triangle of a reference triangle is the triangle formed
by reflecting the mid-arc points , , about the
lines , , and .
The Fuhrmann triangle has trilinear
vertex matrix
![[a (-a^2+c^2+bc)/b (-a^2+b^2+bc)/c; (-b^2+c^2+ac)/a b a^2-b^2+ac; (b^2-c^2+ab)/a (a^2-c^2+ab)/b c].](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=%2Fweb%2F20120108050503im_%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fmathworld.wolfram.com%2Fimages%2Fequations%2FFuhrmannTriangle%2FNumberedEquation1.gif&q=12&output=webp&max-age=110) |
(1)
|
The area of the Fuhrmann triangle is given by
where is the area of the reference triangle, is the distance
between the circumcenter and incenter of the reference triangle, and is the circumradius of the reference
triangle (P. Moses, pers. comm., Aug. 18, 2005).
The side lengths are
The circumcircle of the Fuhrmann triangle is called the Fuhrmann
circle, and the lines , , and concur
at the circumcenter .
Surprisingly, the orthocenter of the Fuhrmann triangle is the incenter
of the reference triangle.
Furthermore, the nine-point center
of the Fuhrmann triangle and are coincident,
and the radius of the nine point circle of the Fuhrmann triangle is (P. Moses,
pers. comm., Aug. 18, 2005).
The following table gives the centers of the Fuhrmann triangle in terms of the centers of the reference triangle
that correspond to Kimberling centers .
Altshiller-Court, N. College Geometry: A Second Course in Plane Geometry for Colleges
and Normal Schools, 2nd ed., rev. enl. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1952.
Fuhrmann, W. Synthetische Beweise Planimetrischer Sätze. Berlin, p. 107,
1890.
Johnson, R. A. Modern Geometry: An Elementary Treatise on the Geometry of the
Triangle and the Circle. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, pp. 228-229,
1929.
Kimberling, C. "Triangle Centers and Central Triangles." Congr. Numer. 129,
1-295, 1998.
|