A question at Math.StackExchange asked about “Ceva’s Theorem in three dimensions”. So I derived one. The result (which I believe may be new, although it could very well exist in the hundreds of years of mathematical literature since Ceva) replaces the traditional ratios of segment lengths with “triple-ratios” of triangle areas, to satisfying effect. Whereas […]
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A Ceva-like Theorem for Tetrahedra
What more I know about hyperbolic tetrahedra
I have updated my note, “Hedronometric Formulas for a Hyperbolic Tetrahedron” (PDF), with a brand new formula for the volume of an arbitrary tetrahedron in terms of its face and pseudo-face areas. (See Section 8.3.) The formula isn’t the monolithic and symmetric counterpart to Derevnin-Mednykh I’ve been seeking, but it’s a start. It’s complicated enough […]
A Hedronometric Theorem of Menger
In 1928, Karl Menger outlined necessary and sufficient conditions for a set of edge lengths to determine an actual, non-degenerate, tetrahedron. The conditions amount to dead-simple sanity checks that the consequent face areas and volume have to be positive real numbers. In the short note “A Hedronometric Theorem of Menger”, I derive (as the title […]
What I know about hyperbolic tetrahedra
Inspired by Mednykh and Pashkevich’s “Elementary Formulas for a Hyperbolic Tetrahedron”, I have compiled most of my disparate notes about hyperbolic hedronometry into one document: “Hedronometric Formulas for a Hyperbolic Tetrahedron”. I consider this a “living document” that I will update as I learn more about the subject matter. It’s primarily a formula look-up list […]
The Descartes Rule of Sweeps
Something about Descartes’ Rule of Signs had bothered me ever since my exposure to it in high school. As you know, the Rule of Signs runs something like this: For a polynomial with non-zero real coefficients, the number of positive roots is, at most, the number of sign changes in the coefficient sequence (ordered by power); more […]