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Erschienen in: Journal of Automated Reasoning 6/2021

26.04.2021

Automated Discovery of Geometric Theorems Based on Vector Equations

verfasst von: Xicheng Peng, Qihang Chen, Jingzhong Zhang, Mao Chen

Erschienen in: Journal of Automated Reasoning | Ausgabe 6/2021

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Abstract

Automated discovery of geometric theorems has attracted considerable attention from the research community. In this paper, a new method is proposed to discover geometric theorems automatically. This method first generates vector equations based on given geometric relations about a geometric figure and then transforms the vector equations into a system of homogeneous linear equations; after computing the determinants of the coefficient matrices corresponding to the system of equations, the elimination method is applied to obtain a large number of geometric relationships. The test on more than 200 geometric problems shows that the geometric relationships discovered automatically by the proposed method are of obvious geometric meaning.

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Metadaten
Titel
Automated Discovery of Geometric Theorems Based on Vector Equations
verfasst von
Xicheng Peng
Qihang Chen
Jingzhong Zhang
Mao Chen
Publikationsdatum
26.04.2021
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Journal of Automated Reasoning / Ausgabe 6/2021
Print ISSN: 0168-7433
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0670
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10817-021-09591-2

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