Total angular defect and Euler's theorem for polyhedra

DOI10.7468/JKSMEB.2012.19.1.37MaRDI QIDQ5891789zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Young Ho Kim, Dong-Soo Kim

Publication date 1 October 2012

Published in Journal of the Korean Society of Mathematical Education. Series B. The Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.7468/jksmeb.2012.19.1.37

zbMATH Keywords

convex polyhedronDescartes' theoremEuler's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) (52B05) Dissections and valuations (Hilbert's third problem, etc.) (52B45)

Review text

The authors give an inductive proof of Descartes' theorem that the total angular defect of a convex polyhedron is equal to \(4\pi\). This is well known to be equivalent to Euler's formula \(V-E+F=2\).

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