Abstract. Jean-Marc Richard observed in [7] that maximal perimeter of a parallelogram inscribed in a given ellipse can be realized by a parallelogram with one vertex at any prescribed point of ellipse. Alain Connes and Don Zagier gave in [4] probably the most elementary proof of this property of ellipse. Another proof can be found in [1]. In this note we prove that closed, convex curves having circles as π 2 -isoptics have the similar property.1. Introduction. Let C be a closed and strictly convex curve. We fix an interior point of C as an origin of a coordinate system. Denote e it = (cos t, sin t), ie it = (− sin t, cos t). The function p :is called the support function of C. For a strictly convex curve p is differentiable. We assume that the function p is of class C 2 and the curvature of C is positive. We have the following equation of C in terms of its support function (1.1) z(t) = p(t)e it +ṗ(t)ie it .Then z = p 2 (t) +ṗ 2 (t) and R(t) = p(t) +p(t) is a radius of curvature of C at t.2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 53C12.
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