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Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem from the Viewpoint of the Mathematical History (수학사적 관점에서 본 피타고라스 정리의 증명)

  • Choi, Young-Gi;Lee, Ji-Hyun
    • School Mathematics
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.523-533
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    • 2007
  • This article focused the meaning of Pythagoras' and Euclid's proof about the Pythagorean theorem in a historical and mathematical perspective. Pythagoras' proof using similarity is based on the arithmetic assumption about commensurability. However, Euclid proved the Pythagorean theorem again only using the concept of dissection-rearrangement that is purely geometric so that it does not need commensurability. Pythagoras' and Euclid's different approaches to geometry have to do with Birkhoff's axiom system and Hilbert's axiom system in the school geometry Birkhoff proposed the new axioms for plane geometry accepting real number that is strictly defined. Thus Birkhoff's metrical approach can be defined as a Pythagorean approach that developed geometry based on number. On the other hand, Hilbert succeeded Euclid who had pursued pure geometry that did not depend on number. The difference between the proof using similarity and dissection-rearrangement is related to the unsolved problem in the geometry curriculum that is conflict of Euclid's conventional synthetical approach and modern mathematical approach to geometry.

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CONVEX POLYTOPES OF GENERALIZED DOUBLY STOCHASTIC MATRICES

  • Cho, Soo-Jin;Nam, Yun-Sun
    • Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.679-690
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    • 2001
  • Doubly stochastic matrices are n$\times$n nonnegative ma-trices whose row and column sums are all 1. Convex polytope $\Omega$$_{n}$ of doubly stochastic matrices and more generally (R,S), so called transportation polytopes, are important since they form the domains for the transportation problems. A theorem by Birkhoff classifies the extremal matrices of , $\Omega$$_{n}$ and extremal matrices of transporta-tion polytopes (R,S) were all classified combinatorially. In this article, we consider signed version of $\Omega$$_{n}$ and (R.S), obtain signed Birkhoff theorem; we define a new class of convex polytopes (R,S), calculate their dimensions, and classify their extremal matrices, Moreover, we suggest an algorithm to express a matrix in (R,S) as a convex combination of txtremal matrices. We also give an example that a polytope of signed matrices is used as a domain for a decision problem. In this context of finite reflection(Coxeter) group theory, our generalization may also be considered as a generalization from type $A_{*}$ n/ to type B$_{n}$ D$_{n}$. n/.

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ON $\varepsilon$-BIRKHOFF ORTHOGONALITY AND $\varepsilon$-NEAR BEST APPROXIMATION

  • Sharma, Meenu;Narang, T.D.
    • The Pure and Applied Mathematics
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.153-162
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    • 2001
  • In this Paper, the notion of $\varepsilon$-Birkhoff orthogonality introduced by Dragomir [An. Univ. Timisoara Ser. Stiint. Mat. 29(1991), no. 1, 51-58] in normed linear spaces has been extended to metric linear spaces and a decomposition theorem has been proved. Some results of Kainen, Kurkova and Vogt [J. Approx. Theory 105 (2000), no. 2, 252-262] proved on e-near best approximation in normed linear spaces have also been extended to metric linear spaces. It is shown that if (X, d) is a convex metric linear space which is pseudo strictly convex and M a boundedly compact closed subset of X such that for each $\varepsilon$>0 there exists a continuous $\varepsilon$-near best approximation $\phi$ : X → M of X by M then M is a chebyshev set .

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HYPERCYCLICITY FOR TRANSLATIONS THROUGH RUNGE'S THEOREM

  • Hallack Andre Arbex
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.117-123
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, we first adapt Runge's Theorem to work on certain domains in any complex Banach space. Then, using this result, we extend Birkhoff's Theorem on the hypercyclicity of translations on $H(\mathbb{C})$ and Costakis' and Sambarino's result on the existence of common hypercyclic functions for uncountable families of translations on $H(\mathbb{C})$ to subs paces of $H_b(E)$ (in some cases all of $H_{b}$(E)), E being in a large class of Banach spaces.

ORTHOGONALITY IN FINSLER C*-MODULES

  • Amyari, Maryam;Hassanniah, Reyhaneh
    • Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.561-569
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, we introduce some notions of orthogonality in the setting of Finsler $C^*$-modules and investigate their relations with the Birkhoff-James orthogonality. Suppose that ($E,{\rho}$) and ($F,{\rho}^{\prime}$) are Finsler modules over $C^*$-algebras $\mathcal{A}$ and $\mathcal{B}$, respectively, and ${\varphi}:{\mathcal{A}}{\rightarrow}{\mathcal{B}}$ is a *-homomorphism. A map ${\Psi}:E{\rightarrow}F$ is said to be a ${\varphi}$-morphism of Finsler modules if ${\rho}^{\prime}({\Psi}(x))={\varphi}({\rho}(x))$ and ${\Psi}(ax)={\varphi}(a){\Psi}(x)$ for all $a{\in}{\mathcal{A}}$ and all $x{\in}E$. We show that each ${\varphi}$-morphism of Finsler $C^*$-modules preserves the Birkhoff-James orthogonality and conversely, each surjective linear map between Finsler $C^*$-modules preserving the Birkhoff-James orthogonality is a ${\varphi}$-morphism under certain conditions. In fact, we state a version of Wigner's theorem in the framework of Finsler $C^*$-modules.

Mutifractal Analysis of Perturbed Cantor Sets

  • Baek, Hun Ki;Lee, Hung Hwan
    • Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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    • v.45 no.4
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    • pp.503-510
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    • 2005
  • Let $\left{K_{\alpha}\right}_{{\alpha}{\in}{\mathbb{R}}}$ be the multifractal spectrums of a perturbed Cantor set K. We find the set of values ${\alpha}$ of nonempty set $K_{\alpha}$ by using the Birkhoff ergodic theorem. And we also show that such $K_{\alpha}$ is a fractal set in the sense of Taylor [12].

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ON UNIVERSAL FUNCTIONS

  • Aron, Richard;Markose, Dinesh
    • Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.65-76
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    • 2004
  • An entire function $f\;{\in}\;H(\mathbb{C})$ is called universal with respect to translations if for any $g\;{\in}\;H(\mathbb{C}),\;R\;>\;0,\;and\;{\epsilon}\;>\;0$, there is $n\;{\in}\;{\mathbb{N}}$ such that $$\mid$f(z\;+\;n)\;-\;g(z)$\mid$\;<\;{\epsilon}$ whenever $$\mid$z$\mid$\;{\leq}\;R$. Similarly, it is universal with respect to differentiation if for any g, R, and $\epsilon$, there is n such that $$\mid$f^{(n)}(z)\;-\;g(z)$\mid$\;<\;{\epsilon}\;for\;$\mid$z$\mid$\;{\leq}\;R$. In this note, we review G. MacLane's proof of the existence of universal functions with respect to differentiation, and we give a simplified proof of G. D. Birkhoff's theorem showing the existence of universal functions with respect to translation. We also discuss Godefroy and Shapiro's extension of these results to convolution operators as well as some new, related results and problems.

SYMBOLIC DYNAMICS AND UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION MODULO 2

  • Choe, Geon H.
    • Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.881-889
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    • 1994
  • Let ($X, \Beta, \mu$) be a measure space with the $\sigma$-algebra $\Beta$ and the probability measure $\mu$. Throughouth this article set equalities and inclusions are understood as being so modulo measure zero sets. A transformation T defined on a probability space X is said to be measure preserving if $\mu(T^{-1}E) = \mu(E)$ for $E \in B$. It is said to be ergodic if $\mu(E) = 0$ or i whenever $T^{-1}E = E$ for $E \in B$. Consider the sequence ${x, Tx, T^2x,...}$ for $x \in X$. One may ask the following questions: What is the relative frequency of the points $T^nx$ which visit the set E\ulcorner Birkhoff Ergodic Theorem states that for an ergodic transformation T the time average $lim_{n \to \infty}(1/N)\sum^{N-1}_{n=0}{f(T^nx)}$ equals for almost every x the space average $(1/\mu(X)) \int_X f(x)d\mu(x)$. In the special case when f is the characteristic function $\chi E$ of a set E and T is ergodic we have the following formula for the frequency of visits of T-iterates to E : $$ lim_{N \to \infty} \frac{$\mid${n : T^n x \in E, 0 \leq n $\mid$}{N} = \mu(E) $$ for almost all $x \in X$ where $$\mid$\cdot$\mid$$ denotes cardinality of a set. For the details, see [8], [10].

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