Van Lamoen circle

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The van Lamoen circle through six circumcenters , , , , ,

In Euclidean plane geometry, the van Lamoen circle is a special circle associated with any given triangle . It contains the circumcenters of the six triangles that are defined inside by its three medians.[1][2]

Specifically, let , , be the vertices of , and let be its centroid (the intersection of its three medians). Let , , and be the midpoints of the sidelines , , and , respectively. It turns out that the circumcenters of the six triangles , , , , , and lie on a common circle, which is the van Lamoen circle of .[2]

The van Lamoen circle is named after the mathematician Floor van Lamoen [nl] who posed it as a problem in 2000.[3][4] A proof was provided by Kin Y. Li in 2001,[4] and the editors of the Amer. Math. Monthly in 2002.[1][5]

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