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Figurate Numbers
The term figurate number is used by different writers for members of different sets of numbers, generalizing from triangular numbers to different shapes (polygonal numbers) and different dimensions (polyhedral numbers). The ancient Greek mathematicians already considered triangular numbers, polygonal numbers, tetrahedral numbers, and pyramidal numbers, ReprintedG. E. Stechert & Co., 1934 and AMS Chelsea Publishing, 1944. and subsequent mathematicians have included other classes of these numbers including numbers defined from other types of polyhedra and from their analogs in other dimensions. Terminology Some kinds of figurate number were discussed in the 16th and 17th centuries under the name "figural number". In historical works about Greek mathematics the preferred term used to be ''figured number''. In a use going back to Jacob Bernoulli's Ars Conjectandi, the term ''figurate number'' is used for triangular numbers made up of successive integers, tetrahedral numbers made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyperpyramid
In geometry, a hyperpyramid is a generalisation of the normal Pyramid (geometry), pyramid to dimensions. In the case of the pyramid one connects all Vertex (geometry), vertices of the Base (geometry), base (a polygon in a plane) to a point outside the plane, which is the Apex (geometry), peak. The pyramid's height is the distance of the peak from the plane. This construction gets generalised to dimensions. The base becomes a -polytope in a -dimensional hyperplane. A point called apex is located outside the hyperplane and gets connected to all the vertices of the polytope and the distance of the apex from the hyperplane is called height. This construct is called a -dimensional hyperpyramid. A normal triangle is a 2-dimensional hyperpyramid, the Tetrahedron, triangular pyramid is a 3-dimensional hyperpyramid and the pentachoron or tetrahedral pyramid is a 4-dimensional hyperpyramid with a tetrahedron as base. The -dimensional volume of a -dimensional hyperpyramid can be compute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetractys
The tetractys (), or tetrad, or the tetractys of the decad is a triangular number, triangular figure consisting of ten points arranged in four rows: one, two, three, and four points in each row, which is the geometrical representation of the fourth triangular number. As a mysticism, mystical symbol, it was very important to the secret worship of Pythagoreanism. There were four seasons, and the number was also associated with planetary motions and music. Pythagorean symbol # The first four numbers symbolize the ''musica universalis'' and the Cosmos as: ## Monad (philosophy), Monad – Unity ## Dyad (Greek philosophy), Dyad – Power – Limit/Unlimited (peras/Apeiron (cosmology), apeiron) ## Triad – Harmony ## Tetrad – Kosmos # The four rows add up to ten, which was unity of a higher order (The Dekad). # The Tetractys symbolizes the classical element, four classical elements—air, fire, water, and earth. # The Tetractys represented the organization of space: ## the first row ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pentatopic Number
In number theory, a pentatope number is a number in the fifth cell of any row of Pascal's triangle starting with the 5-term row , either from left to right or from right to left. It is named because it represents the number of 3-dimensional unit spheres which can be packed into a pentatope (a 4-dimensional tetrahedron) of increasing side lengths. The first few numbers of this kind are: : 1, 5, 15, 35, 70, 126, 210, 330, 495, 715, 1001, 1365 Pentatope numbers belong to the class of figurate numbers, which can be represented as regular, discrete geometric patterns. Formula The formula for the th pentatope number is represented by the 4th rising factorial of divided by the factorial of 4: :P_n = \frac = \frac . The pentatope numbers can also be represented as binomial coefficients: :P_n = \binom , which is the number of distinct quadruples that can be selected from objects, and it is read aloud as " plus three choose four". Properties Two of every three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simplex
In geometry, a simplex (plural: simplexes or simplices) is a generalization of the notion of a triangle or tetrahedron to arbitrary dimensions. The simplex is so-named because it represents the simplest possible polytope in any given dimension. For example, * a 0-dimensional simplex is a point, * a 1-dimensional simplex is a line segment, * a 2-dimensional simplex is a triangle, * a 3-dimensional simplex is a tetrahedron, and * a 4-dimensional simplex is a 5-cell. Specifically, a -simplex is a -dimensional polytope that is the convex hull of its vertices. More formally, suppose the points u_0, \dots, u_k are affinely independent, which means that the vectors u_1 - u_0,\dots, u_k-u_0 are linearly independent. Then, the simplex determined by them is the set of points C = \left\. A regular simplex is a simplex that is also a regular polytope. A regular -simplex may be constructed from a regular -simplex by connecting a new vertex to all original vertices by the common ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal's Triangle
In mathematics, Pascal's triangle is an infinite triangular array of the binomial coefficients which play a crucial role in probability theory, combinatorics, and algebra. In much of the Western world, it is named after the French mathematician Blaise Pascal, although other mathematicians studied it centuries before him in Persia, India, China, Germany, and Italy. The rows of Pascal's triangle are conventionally enumerated starting with row n = 0 at the top (the 0th row). The entries in each row are numbered from the left beginning with k = 0 and are usually staggered relative to the numbers in the adjacent rows. The triangle may be constructed in the following manner: In row 0 (the topmost row), there is a unique nonzero entry 1. Each entry of each subsequent row is constructed by adding the number above and to the left with the number above and to the right, treating blank entries as 0. For example, the initial number of row 1 (or any other row) is 1 (the sum of 0 and 1), whereas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polynomial
In mathematics, a polynomial is a Expression (mathematics), mathematical expression consisting of indeterminate (variable), indeterminates (also called variable (mathematics), variables) and coefficients, that involves only the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and exponentiation to nonnegative integer powers, and has a finite number of terms. An example of a polynomial of a single indeterminate is . An example with three indeterminates is . Polynomials appear in many areas of mathematics and science. For example, they are used to form polynomial equations, which encode a wide range of problems, from elementary word problem (mathematics education), word problems to complicated scientific problems; they are used to define polynomial functions, which appear in settings ranging from basic chemistry and physics to economics and social science; and they are used in calculus and numerical analysis to approximate other functions. In advanced mathematics, polynomials are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ehrhart Polynomial
In mathematics, an integral polytope has an associated Ehrhart polynomial that encodes the relationship between the volume of a polytope and the number of integer points the polytope contains. The theory of Ehrhart polynomials can be seen as a higher-dimensional generalization of Pick's theorem in the Euclidean plane. These polynomials are named after Eugène Ehrhart who introduced them in the 1960s. Definition Informally, if is a polytope, and is the polytope formed by expanding by a factor of in each dimension, then is the number of integer lattice points in . More formally, consider a lattice \mathcal in Euclidean space \R^n and a -dimensional polytope in \R^n with the property that all vertices of the polytope are points of the lattice. (A common example is \mathcal = \Z^n and a polytope for which all vertices have integer coordinates.) For any positive integer , let be the -fold dilation of (the polytope formed by multiplying each vertex coordinate, in a basis fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dover Books
Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books, is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward and Blanche Cirker. It primarily reissues books that are out of print from their original publishers. These are often, but not always, books in the public domain. The original published editions may be scarce or historically significant. Dover republishes these books, making them available at a significantly reduced cost. Classic reprints Dover reprints classic works of literature, classical sheet music, and public-domain images from the 18th and 19th centuries. Dover also publishes an extensive collection of mathematical, scientific, and engineering texts. It often targets its reprints at a niche market, such as woodworking. Starting in 2015, the company branched out into graphic novel reprints, overseen by Dover acquisitions editor and former comics writer and editor Drew Ford. Most Dover reprints are photo facsimiles of the originals, retaining the original pagination and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Square Triangular Number
In mathematics, a square triangular number (or triangular square number) is a number which is both a triangular number and a square number, in other words, the sum of all integers from 1 to n has a square root that is an integer. There are infinitely many square triangular numbers; the first few are: Solution as a Pell equation Write N_k for the kth square triangular number, and write s_k and t_k for the sides of the corresponding square and triangle, so that Define the ''triangular root'' of a triangular number N=\tfrac to be n. From this definition and the quadratic formula, Therefore, N is triangular (n is an integer) if and only if 8N+1 is square. Consequently, a square number M^2 is also triangular if and only if 8M^2+1 is square, that is, there are numbers x and y such that x^2-8y^2=1. This is an instance of the Pell equation x^2-ny^2=1 with n=8. All Pell equations have the trivial solution x=1,y=0 for any n; this is called the zeroth solution, and indexed as (x ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euler
Leonhard Euler ( ; ; ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, and engineer. He founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made influential discoveries in many other branches of mathematics, such as analytic number theory, complex analysis, and infinitesimal calculus. He also introduced much of modern mathematical terminology and notation, including the notion of a mathematical function. He is known for his work in mechanics, fluid dynamics, optics, astronomy, and music theory. Euler has been called a "universal genius" who "was fully equipped with almost unlimited powers of imagination, intellectual gifts and extraordinary memory". He spent most of his adult life in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and in Berlin, then the capital of Prussia. Euler is credited for popularizing the Greek letter \pi (lowercase pi) to denote the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fermat Polygonal Number Theorem
In additive number theory, the Fermat polygonal number theorem states that every positive integer is a sum of at most -gonal numbers. That is, every positive integer can be written as the sum of three or fewer triangular numbers, and as the sum of four or fewer square numbers, and as the sum of five or fewer pentagonal numbers, and so on. That is, the -gonal numbers form an additive basis of order . Examples Three such representations of the number 17, for example, are shown below: *17 = 10 + 6 + 1 (''triangular numbers'') *17 = 16 + 1 (''square numbers'') *17 = 12 + 5 (''pentagonal numbers''). History The theorem is named after Pierre de Fermat, who stated it, in 1638, without proof, promising to write it in a separate work that never appeared.. Joseph Louis Lagrange proved the square case in 1770, which states that every positive number can be represented as a sum of four squares, for example, . Gauss proved the triangular case in 1796, commemorating the occasion by writi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
