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#2: Post edited by user avatar zavier‭ · 2021-12-22T05:38:12Z (over 2 years ago)
Is Pythagorean theorem really valid in higher dimensional space?
  • I saw that someone was writing Pythagorean theorem in 3 dimensional space. The equation was :
  • $$c=\sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2}$$
  • If it's really correct than Pythagorean should work in higher dimensional space either. So I can write that
  • $$c=\sqrt{\sum_{n=0}^nn^2}$$
  • At first I was thinking how right triangle should look like in 3 dimensional space. From my imagination, the triangle will look like a pyramid but all sides of that pyramid will be looking like right triangle that's how Pythagorean works in 3 dimension. It's impossible to imagine the shape in 4 dimension or higher dimension.
  • Is Pythagorean theorem really valid in higher dimensional space?
  • I saw that someone was writing Pythagorean theorem in 3 dimensional space. The equation was :
  • $$c=\sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2}$$
  • If it's really correct than Pythagorean should work in higher dimensional space either. So I can write that
  • $$c=\sqrt{\sum_{n=0}^N x_n^2}$$
  • At first I was thinking how right triangle should look like in 3 dimensional space. From my imagination, the triangle will look like a pyramid but all sides of that pyramid will be looking like right triangle that's how Pythagorean works in 3 dimension. It's impossible to imagine the shape in 4 dimension or higher dimension.
  • Is Pythagorean theorem really valid in higher dimensional space?
#1: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2021-09-21T16:25:27Z (over 2 years ago)
Is Pythagorean theorem really valid in higher dimensional space?
I saw that someone was writing Pythagorean theorem in 3 dimensional space. The equation was :

$$c=\sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2}$$
If it's really correct than Pythagorean should work in higher dimensional space either. So I can write that

$$c=\sqrt{\sum_{n=0}^nn^2}$$

At first I was thinking how right triangle should look like in 3 dimensional space. From my imagination, the triangle will look like a pyramid but all sides of that pyramid will be looking like right triangle that's how Pythagorean works in 3 dimension. It's impossible to imagine the shape in 4 dimension or higher dimension. 

Is Pythagorean theorem really valid in higher dimensional space?