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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: sum(i=1 to n, i^3) = ?? URGENT !!
- Message-ID: <1451@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 16:57:35 GMT
- References: <1993Jan7.145215@imhfhp16.epfl.ch> <8979@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com> <4820@seti.inria.fr>
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- In article <4820@seti.inria.fr> menissie@ausone.inria.fr (Valerie Menissier-Morain) writes:
- >In article <8979@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com>, jgrij@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (Joey J. Griffin) writes:
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- >[deleted]
- >|> 1^3 + 2^3 + 3^3 + ... + n^3 = (1 + 2 + 3 + ... n) ^ 2
- >|> Proof by induction.
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- >In fact there is a very beautiful geometrical proof of this assertion:
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- [beautiful proof deleted]
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- I think that the legendary Rufus Bowen's first paper was on this fact, and
- some generalizations. I also seem to remember that there is a bibliography
- for Bowen in the memorial Publ. I.H.E.S. (v 50 or 51) for him.
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- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
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