{"title":"A Generalization of Archimedes’ Theorem on the Area of a Parabolic Segment","authors":"A. Grigoryan, S. Ignaciuk, M. Parol","doi":"10.2478/auom-2021-0026","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Archimedes’ well known theorem on the area of a parabolic segment says that this area is 4/3 of the area of a certain inscribed triangle. In this paper we generalize this theorem to the n-dimensional euclidean space, n ≥ 3. It appears that the ratio of the volume of an n-dimensional solid bounded by an (n − 1)-dimensional hyper-paraboloid and an (n − 1)-dimensional hyperplane and the volume of a certain inscribed cone (we analogously repeat Archimedes’ procedure) depends only on the dimension of the euclidean space and it equals to 2n/(n +1).","PeriodicalId":0,"journal":{"name":"","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2478/auom-2021-0026","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract Archimedes’ well known theorem on the area of a parabolic segment says that this area is 4/3 of the area of a certain inscribed triangle. In this paper we generalize this theorem to the n-dimensional euclidean space, n ≥ 3. It appears that the ratio of the volume of an n-dimensional solid bounded by an (n − 1)-dimensional hyper-paraboloid and an (n − 1)-dimensional hyperplane and the volume of a certain inscribed cone (we analogously repeat Archimedes’ procedure) depends only on the dimension of the euclidean space and it equals to 2n/(n +1).