Santa Barbara Math Ellipse team members Elena Beckman, Sabrina Avolio, Seungyoo Kim-Jung and Miranda Li post a perfect score. (Courtesy photo) Santa Barbara Math Ellipse (SBME) has learned that its ...

We consider several seemingly unrelated theorems, each with the word ellipse in the statement: Siebeck’s theorem, the elliptical range theorem, Poncelet’s theorem, and the Blaschke ellipse theorem.

Using the digits from the decimal expansion of 1/7, namely 142857, and forming six points in the plane—(1, 4), (4, 2), (2, 8), (8, 5), (5, 7), (7, 1)—one finds, surprisingly, that these six points lie ...