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An Isometric Embedding of the Impossible Triangle into the Euclidean Space of Lowest Dimension

  • Shanghai University

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摘要

The impossible triangle, invented independently by Oscar Reutersvärd and Roger Penrose in 1934 and 1957, is a famous geometry configuration that cannot be realized in our living space. Many people admitted that this object could be constructed in the four-dimensional Euclidean space without rigorous proof. In this paper, we prove that the isometric embedding problem can be decided by finite points on the configuration, then applying Menger and Blumenthal’s classical method of Euclidean embedding of finite metric space we determined the lowest Euclidean dimension, and finally using Maple obtained the coordinates of the isometric embedding. Our investigation shows that the impossible triangle is impossible to be isometrically embedded in the dimension four Euclidean space, but there is an isometric embedding to the dimension five space.

源语言英语
主期刊名Maple in Mathematics Education and Research - 4th Maple Conference, MC 2020, Revised Selected Papers
编辑Robert M. Corless, Jürgen Gerhard, Ilias S. Kotsireas
出版商Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
438-457
页数20
ISBN(印刷版)9783030816971
DOI
出版状态已出版 - 2021
活动4th Maple Conference, MC 2020 - Waterloo, 加拿大
期限: 2 11月 20206 11月 2020

出版系列

姓名Communications in Computer and Information Science
1414
ISSN(印刷版)1865-0929
ISSN(电子版)1865-0937

会议

会议4th Maple Conference, MC 2020
国家/地区加拿大
Waterloo
时期2/11/206/11/20

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