Abstract

A generalized Pythagorean theorem is an equation relating the squares of the volumes of faces of a particular k-simplex in n-dimensional Euclidean space. There are many proofs of this theorem. This note presents yet another very short elementary proof of the generalized Pythagorean theorem that is no more than the direct expansion of the determinant of ATA where A is a matrix determined by the simplex.

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