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This article provides a simple geometric interpretation of the quadratic formula. The geometry helps to demystify the formula's complex appearance and casts it into a much simpler existence, thus potentially benefits early algebra students.

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In this article using elementary school level Geometry we observe an alternative proof of Pythagorean Theorem from Heron's Formula.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Bikash Chakraborty

The stability, robustness, accuracy, and efficiency of space-time finite element methods crucially depend on the choice of approximation spaces for test and trial functions. This is especially true for high-order, mixed finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Nilima Nigam , David M. Williams

The symmetry dimension of a geometric structure is the dimension of its symmetry algebra. We investigate symmetries of almost quaternionic structures of quaternionic dimension $n$. The maximal possible symmetry is realized by the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-08 Boris Kruglikov , Henrik Winther , Lenka Zalabova

A problem that is simple to state in the context of spherical geometry, and that seems rather interesting, appears to have been unexamined to date in the mathematical literature. The problem can also be recast as a problem in the real…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Michael Q. Rieck

This article explores the geometric algebra of Minkowski spacetime, and its relationship to the geometric algebra of Euclidean 4-space. Both of these geometric algebras are algebraically isomorphic to the 2x2 matrix algebra over Hamilton's…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-03-06 Garret Sobczyk

Heron, in Metrica III.20-22, is concerned with the the division of solid figures - pyramids, cones and frustra of cones - to which end there is a need to extract cube roots. We report here on some of our findings on the conjecture by…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2019-05-10 Trond Steihaug , D. G. Rogers

In the last one and a half centuries, the analysis of quaternions has not only led to further developments in mathematics but has also been and remains an important catalyst for the further development of theories in physics. At the same…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-09-17 Martin Erik Horn

Given any positive integer $n$, it is well-known that there always exists a triangle with rational sides $a,b$ and $c$ such that the area of the triangle is $n$. For a given prime $p \not \equiv 1$ modulo $8$ such that $p^{2}+1=2q$ for a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-09 Vinodkumar Ghale , Shamik Das , Debopam Chakraborty

We give a spinorial characterization of isometrically immersed hypersurfaces into 4-dimensional space forms and product spaces $\M^3(\kappa)\times\R$, in terms of the existence of particular spinor fields, called generalized Killing spinors…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-13 Marie-Amélie Lawn , Julien Roth

In this paper we classify and derive closed formulas for geometric elements of quadrics in rational B\'ezier triangular form (such as the center, the conic at infinity, the vertex and the axis of paraboloids and the principal planes), using…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-02-05 A. Cantón , L. Fernández-Jambrina , M. E. Rosado María , M. J. Vázquez-Gallo

Algorithms that decompose a manifold into simple pieces reveal the geometric and topological structure of the manifold, showing how complicated structures are constructed from simple building blocks. This note describes a way to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Mark Bell , Joel Hass , J. Hyam Rubinstein , Stephan Tillmann

A central aim of theoretical physics is to account for the structure of matter at the most elementary level as underlying the Standard Model of particle physics, and ideally also as a basis for a substantial dark sector, as distributed in…

General Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 David J. Jackson

Any permutation-invariant function of data points $\vec{r}_i$ can be written in the form $\rho(\sum_i\phi(\vec{r}_i))$ for suitable functions $\rho$ and $\phi$. This form - known in the machine-learning literature as Deep Sets - also…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Connor Hainje , David W. Hogg

The use of complexified quaternions and $i$-complex geometry in formulating the Dirac equation allows us to give interesting geometric interpretations hidden in the conventional matrix-based approach.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-27 Stefano De Leo , Waldyr A. Rodrigues,

We make a systematic investigation of quadrature properties for quadrics, namely integration of holomorphic functions over planar domains bounded by second degree curves. A full understanding requires extending traditional settings by…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Björn Gustafsson

Each triangle has three exterior or external circles tangential to the three straight lines containing the three sides of the triangle.Among the preliminaries in this paper, is deriving formulas for the radii of the three exterior circles…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2008-04-30 Konstantine Zelator

The paper develops the fundamentals of quaternionic holomorphic curve theory. The holomorphic functions in this theory are conformal maps from a Riemann surface into the 4-sphere, i.e., the quaternionic projective line. Basic results such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 D. Ferus , K. Leschke , F. Pedit , U. Pinkall

At any point of a surface in the four-dimensional Euclidean space we consider the geometric configuration consisting of two figures: the tangent indicatrix, which is a conic in the tangent plane, and the normal curvature ellipse. We show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-28 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

The equivalence of a conformal metric on 4-dimensional space-time and a local field of 3-dimensional subspaces of the space of 2-forms over space-time is discussed and the basic notion of transection is introduced. Corresponding relation is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Tertychniy