Mathematician:Leon Bankoff
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Mathematician
American dentist and amateur mathematician best known for his construction of the Bankoff circle.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: December 13, 1908
- Died: February 16, 1997
Achievements
Publications
- 1957: Solutions: $\text E 1249$ (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 64, no. 7: pp. 507 – 508) www.jstor.org/stable/2308471
- 1973: The Asymmetric Propeller (Math. Mag. Vol. 46, no. 5: pp. 270 – 272) (with Paul Erdős and Murray S. Klamkin) www.jstor.org/stable/2688264
- 1974: Are the twin circles of Archimedes really twins? (Math. Mag. Vol. 47: pp. 214 – 218) www.jstor.org/stable/2689213
- 1987: The Metamorphosis of the Butterfly Theorem (Math. Mag. Vol. 60, no. 4: pp. 195 – 210) www.jstor.org/stable/2689339
Editor of the puzzle column of the Pi Mu Epsilon journals.