Polygons, conics and billiards

• Ronaldo A. Garcia ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade Federal de Goiás

     Universidade Federal de Goiás

     Brasil

     
• Localización: Materials matemàtics, ISSN-e 1887-1097, Nº. 0, 2020
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this expository article we will describe some elementary properties of billiards and Poncelet maps and special attention is dedicated to N-periodic orbits. In general, problems involving billiards are easy to state and under-standing, and difficult or laborious to solve.