“Polygon”的概念、定义、习题解题方法及翻译-数学辞典

单词

Polygon

释义

Polygon

A closed plane figure with sides. If all sides and angles are equivalent, the polygon is called regular. Regular polygonscan be Convex or Star. The word derives from the Greek poly (many) andgonu (knee).

The Area of a Convex Polygon with Vertices , ..., is

(1)

which can be written

(2)

where the signs can be found from the following diagram.

The Area of a polygon is defined to be Positive if the points are arranged in a counterclockwise order, andNegative if they are in clockwise order (Beyer 1987).

The sum of internal angles in the above diagram of a dissected polygon is

(3)

But

(4)

and the sum of Angles of the

Triangles is

(5)

Therefore,

(6)

Let be the number of sides. The regular -gon is then denoted .


2	Digon
3	Equilateral Triangle (Trigon)
4	Square (Quadrilateral, Tetragon)
5	Pentagon
6	Hexagon
7	Heptagon
8	Octagon
9	Nonagon (Enneagon)
10	Decagon
11	Undecagon (Hendecagon)
12	Dodecagon
13	Tridecagon (Triskaidecagon)
14	Tetradecagon (Tetrakaidecagon)
15	Pentadecagon (Pentakaidecagon)
16	Hexadecagon (Hexakaidecagon)
17	Heptadecagon (Heptakaidecagon)
18	Octadecagon (Octakaidecagon)
19	Enneadecagon (Enneakaidecagon)
20	Icosagon
30	Triacontagon
40	Tetracontagon
50	Pentacontagon
60	Hexacontagon
70	Heptacontagon
80	Octacontagon
90	Enneacontagon
100	Hectogon
10000	Myriagon

Let be the side length, be the Inradius, and the Circumradius. Then

			(7)
			(8)
			(9)
			(10)
			(11)
			(12)

If the number of sides is doubled, then

			(13)
			(14)

Furthermore, if

and

are the Perimeters of the regular polygons inscribed in andcircumscribed around a given Circle and

and

their areas, then

			(15)
			(16)

and

			(17)
			(18)

(Beyer 1987, p. 125).

Euclid were capable of inscribing regularpolygons of 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 40, 48, 64, ..., sides. However, this listing is not a completeenumeration of ``constructible'' polygons. In fact, a regular -gon is constructible only if is a Powerof 2, where is the Totient Function (this is a Necessary but not Sufficient condition). Morespecifically, a regular -gon () can be constructed by Straightedge and Compass (i.e., can havetrigonometric functions of its Angles expressed in terms of finite Square Root extractions)Iff

(19)

where

is in Integer

and the

are distinct Fermat Primes. FermatNumbers are of the form

(20)

where

is an Integer

. The only known Primes of this form are 3, 5, 17,257, and 65537.

The fact that this condition was Gauß in 1796 when he was 19 years old, andit relies on the property of Irreducible Polynomials that Roots composed of afinite number of Square Root extractions exist only if the order of the equation is of the form . That thiscondition was also Necessary was not explicitly proven by Gauss, and the first proof of this fact is credited to Wantzel(1836).

Constructible values of for were given by Gauss (Smith 1994), and the first few are 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12,15, 16, 17, 20, 24, 30, 32, 34, 40, 48, 51, 60, 64, 68, 80, 85, 96, 102, 120, 128, 136, 160, 170, 192, ...(Sloane's A003401). Gardner (1977) and independently Watkins (Conway and Guy 1996) noticed that the number of sides forconstructible polygons with an Odd number of sides is given by the first 32 rows of Pascal's Triangle (mod 2)interpreted as A004729, Conway andGuy 1996, p. 140).

Although constructions for the regular Triangle, Square, Pentagon, and their derivatives had beengiven by Euclid, constructions based on the Fermat Primes were unknown to theancients. The first explicit construction of a Heptadecagon (17-gon) was given by Erchinger in about 1800. Richelotand Schwendenwein found constructions for the 257-gon in 1832, and Hermes spent 10 years on the construction of the65537-gon at Göttingen around 1900 (Coxeter 1969). Constructions for the Equilateral Triangle andSquare are trivial (top figures below). Elegant constructions for the Pentagon and Heptadecagon aredue to Richmond (1893) (bottom figures below).

Given a point, a Circle may be constructed of any desired Radius, and a Diameter drawn through thecenter. Call the center , and the right end of the Diameter . The Diameter Perpendicular tothe original Diameter may be constructed by finding the Perpendicular Bisector. Call the upper endpoint ofthis Perpendicular Diameter . For the Pentagon, find the Midpoint of and call it . Draw , and Bisect , calling the intersection point with . Draw Parallel to , and the first two points of the Pentagon are and . The constructionfor the Heptadecagon is more complicated, but can be accomplished in 17 relatively simple steps. The construction problem has now been automated (Bishop 1978).

See also 257-gon, 65537-gon, Anthropomorphic Polygon, Bicentric Polygon, Carnot's PolygonTheorem, Chaos Game, Convex Polygon, Cyclic Polygon, de Moivre Number, Diagonal (Polygon),Equilateral Triangle, Euler's Polygon Division Problem, Heptadecagon, Hexagon, Hexagram,Illumination Problem, Jordan Polygon, Lozenge, Octagon, Parallelogram, Pascal'sTheorem, Pentagon, Pentagram, Petrie Polygon, Polygon Circumscribing Constant, PolygonInscribing Constant, Polygonal Knot, Polygonal Number, Polygonal Spiral, Polygon Triangulation,Polygram, Polyhedral Formula, Polyhedron, Polytope, Quadrangle, Quadrilateral,Regular Polygon, Reuleaux Polygon, Rhombus, Rotor, Simple Polygon, Simplicity,Square, Star Polygon, Trapezium, Trapezoid, Triangle, Visibility, VoronoiPolygon, Wallace-Bolyai-Gerwein Theorem

References

Beyer, W. H. CRC Standard Mathematical Tables, 28th ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, pp. 124-125 and 196, 1987.

Bishop, W. ``How to Construct a Regular Polygon.'' Amer. Math. Monthly 85, 186-188, 1978.

Conway, J. H. and Guy, R. K. The Book of Numbers. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 140 and 197-202, 1996.

Courant, R. and Robbins, H. ``Regular Polygons.'' §3.2 in What is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods, 2nd ed. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, pp. 122-125, 1996.

Coxeter, H. S.M. Introduction to Geometry, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, 1969.

De Temple, D. W. ``Carlyle Circles and the Lemoine Simplicity of Polygonal Constructions.'' Amer. Math. Monthly 98, 97-108, 1991.

Gardner, M. Mathematical Carnival: A New Round-Up of Tantalizers and Puzzles from Scientific American. New York: Vintage Books, p. 207, 1977.

Gauss, C. F. §365 and 366 in Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. Leipzig, Germany, 1801. Translated by A. A Clarke. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1965.

The Math Forum. ``Naming Polygons and Polyhedra.'' http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/faq/faq.polygon.names.html.

Rawles, B. Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook: Universal Dimensional Patterns. Nevada City, CA: Elysian Pub., p. 238, 1997.

Richmond, H. W. ``A Construction for a Regular Polygon of Seventeen Sides.'' Quart. J. Pure Appl. Math. 26, 206-207, 1893.

Sloane, N. J. A. SequencesA004729 andA003401/M0505in ``An On-Line Version of the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.''http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/eisonline.html and Sloane, N. J. A. and Plouffe, S.The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. San Diego: Academic Press, 1995.

Smith, D. E. A Source Book in Mathematics. New York: Dover, p. 350, 1994.

Tietze, H. Ch. 9 in Famous Problems of Mathematics. New York: Graylock Press, 1965.

Wantzel, M. L. ``Recherches sur les moyens de reconnaître si un Problème de Géométrie peut se résoudre avec la règle et le compas.'' J. Math. pures appliq. 1, 366-372, 1836.

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