Solution to a problem of Erdős

The Endeavour 2024-12-09

How many ways can you select six points in the plane so that every subset of three points forms the vertices of an isosceles triangle?

One solution is to choose the five vertices of a regular pentagon and the center.

Erdos pentagon

It’s easy to verify that this is a solution. The much harder part is to show that this is the only solution.

A uniqueness proof was published on arXiv last Friday: A note on Erdős’s mysterious remark by Zoltán Kovács.

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