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Contributed Paper Session I-2 #5

Subevent of Contributed Paper Session I-2

Phillips 221

Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Starts at: 2025-02-28 03:20PM

Ends at: 2025-02-28 03:35PM

Pythagorean n-ples

Dan Kalman ⟨kalman@american.edu⟩

Abstract:

Pythagorean Triples such as (3,4,5) and (5,12,13) are a familiar topic in college mathematics. They represent integer sided right triangles, as well as rational points on the unit circle (eg (3/5,4/5), (5/13, 12/13)) and integer vectors with integer lengths (eg (3,4), (5,12)). This talk discusses extensions of these ideas to higher dimensions: Pythagorean 4-ples, 5-ples, n-ples. Though these extensions are not new (for example they can be found in wikipedia), they are not nearly as well known as they deserve to be.

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