The Sum of Squares in Polycubes (Media Exposition)

Author Donald R. Sheehy



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Donald R. Sheehy
  • North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

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Donald R. Sheehy. The Sum of Squares in Polycubes (Media Exposition). In 39th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 258, pp. 65:1-65:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2023.65

Abstract

We give several ways to derive and express classic summation problems in terms of polycubes. We visualize them with 3D printed models. The video is here: http://go.ncsu.edu/sum_of_squares.

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  • Theory of computation → Computational geometry
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  • Archimedes
  • polycubes
  • sum of squares

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