Geometric Progressions-A Geometric Approach

DOI10.2307/2687308MaRDI QIDQ4532956zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Strizhevsky, D. M. Kreslavskiy

Publication date 9 September 2002

Published in The College Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2687308

zbMATH Keywords

geometric progressiongroup of similaritiessequence of triangles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discontinuous groups and automorphic forms (11F99) Convergence and divergence of series and sequences (40A05) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry (51M15)

Review text

The convergence of infinite decreasing geometric progressions is illustrated by plane spirals of triangles. Reviewer's remark: The mention of the transformation groups behind the spirals would have made the approach still more geometrical.

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