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Tag Archives: Menelaus’ theorem
Representing the Fano matroid
In my lecture today I proved that the Fano matroid is representable over a field F if and only the characteristic of F is 2. There is a proof of this using only the classical theorems of Ceva and Menelaus … Continue reading
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Tagged Ceva's theorem, Euclidean geometry, Fano plane, matroid, Menelaus' theorem, representation
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