A Geometric Generalization of the Pythagorean Means

Greg Markowsky; Dylan Phung; David Treeby

doi:10.1080/0025570X.2022.2125729

A Geometric Generalization of the Pythagorean Means

Greg Markowsky, Dylan Phung, David Treeby

School of Mathematics

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Summary: Each of the Pythagorean means corresponds to the centroid of a region in the Cartesian plane. We show how this insight leads to a short proof of a result that generalizes the HM-GM-AM inequality.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	520-524
Number of pages	5
Journal	Mathematics Magazine
Volume	95
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0025570X.2022.2125729
Publication status	Published - 30 Sept 2022

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