Some elementary aspects of 4-dimensional geometry

DOI10.3390/SYM7020515MaRDI QIDQ2406207zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Scott Carter, David A. Mullens

Publication date 27 September 2017

Published in Symmetry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.01727

zbMATH Keywords

hypercubefour-dimensional geometryscissors congruenceHeron's formulahyper-solidsNicomachus' theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Length, area and volume in real or complex geometry (51M25) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)

Abstract: We indicate that Heron's formula (which relates the square of the area of a triangle to a quartic function of its edge lengths) can be interpreted as a scissors congruence in 4-dimensional space. In the process of demonstrating this, we examine a number of decompositions of hypercubes, hyper-parallelograms, and other elementary 4-dimensional solids.

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