Beauty of Mathematics

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry-- Bertrand Russel.
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Sunday 7 December 2014

Mathematical Odds and Ends


Sum of Product of All pairs of First n natural Numbers

We Know that 

(a+ b+c)2 =  a2 + b2+ c2 +2(ab +bc +ca)
(a+ b+c)2 =  a2 + b2+ c2 +2 ( Sum of product of all pairs of a,b and c)
Similarly we know that
(a+ b+c +d)2 =  a2 + b2+ c2 + d+ 2 (ab +ac +ad +bc + bd +cd + da)
(a+ b+c +d)2 =  a2 + b2+ c2 + d+ 2 (Sum of product of all pairs of a,b ,c and d, taken two at a time.)
Suppose now we have to find sum of product of all pairs of first n natural nos.; then we can write

(1+2+3+4+…..+n)2  =  (12+22+32+42+…..+n2) + 2(Sum of product of all pairs of first n natural numbers)

So now we can say (Sum of product of all pairs of first n natural numbers)
= { n(n+1)/2} – n(n+1)(2n+1)/6
=…..
=…..
= (n-1)n(n+1)(3n+2)/24

Now suppose we have to find sum of products of all pairs of first 10 natural Numbers all we have to do is to put n=10 in the above formula.

Thus we get the value as equal to (10-1)(10) (10+1) (3x10 +2)/24=9x10x11x32/24= 1320 
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