Some elementary aspects of 4-dimensional geometry

DOI10.3390/SYM7020515zbMATH Open1379.51007arXiv1504.01727OpenAlexW2963439218MaRDI QIDQ2406207FDOQ2406207

Authors: J. Scott Carter, David A. Mullens 

Publication date: 27 September 2017

Published in: Symmetry (Search for Journal in Brave)

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.

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

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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)

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