A New Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem and Its Application to Element Decompositions in Topological Algebras
Author(s) -
Fred Greensite
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of mathematics and mathematical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1687-0425
pISSN - 0161-1712
DOI - 10.1155/2012/353917
Subject(s) - mathematics , pythagorean theorem , norm (philosophy) , vector space , algebraic number , minkowski space , geometric algebra , algebra over a field , topological algebra , pure mathematics , topological space , algebra representation , mathematical analysis , geometry , political science , law
We present a new proof of the Pythagorean theorem which suggests a particular decomposition of the elements of a topological algebra in terms of an “inverse norm” (addressing unital algebraic structure rather than simply vector space structure). One consequence is the unification of Euclidean norm, Minkowski norm, geometric mean, and determinant, as expressions of this entity in the context of different algebras
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