Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants
What Can a Right Triangle Look Like?
Department
Mathematics
College
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Date Range
2011-2012
Abstract
We all know what a right triangle looks like {or do we? The picture we have in our minds is likely based in Euclidean geometry in the plane, but that is not the only possibility. In this presentation we discuss the concept of orthogonality in the space of nonempty compact subsets of n-dimensional real space and describe how Euclidean orthogonality of compact sets is similar to and di fferent from our standard view of orthogonality. The presentation will include pictures of several seemingly odd right triangles.
Conference Name
2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings, the Annual Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America
Conference Location
Boston, MA
ScholarWorks Citation
Schlicker, Steven, "What Can a Right Triangle Look Like?" (2011). Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants. 295.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/fsdg/295
