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The Soddy spheres of a 4-ball tetrahedron: Part 1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Michael Fox ,
Adrian Oldknow ,
John Rigby  and
Christopher Zeeman
Michael Fox
Affiliation:
2 Learn Road, Leamington Spa CV32 3PA, e-mail: michaelandjean.fox@btinternet.com
Adrian Oldknow
Affiliation:
Church Lane House, Easter gate, Chichester PO20 3UR, e-mail: aoldknow@yahoo.co.uk
John Rigby
Affiliation:
Flat 5 Cathedral Court, Cathedral Green, Llandaff, Cardiff CF5 2EB, e-mail: rigbycathedralcourt@tiscali.co.uk
Christopher Zeeman
Affiliation:
21 High Street, Woodstock OX20 1TE
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New discoveries about the Soddy circles of a triangle were published in the Gazette [1] in 1995; they are summarised below. Extensions of wellknown results in the geometry of the triangle to that of the tetrahedron were presented by Zeeman in his 2004 Presidential Address at the Mathematical Association Conference in York [2]. Using the computer software package Cabri 3D, we have discovered new results which extend the Soddy circles of a triangle to Soddy spheres of a special class of tetrahedra. This article is the first of two which present our discoveries, as well as relevant aspects of the established geometry of tetrahedra, together with their proofs.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 92 , Issue 524 , July 2008 , pp. 205 - 213
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 2008

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