Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-dlnhk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-26T09:49:30.199Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

On a theorem of L. J. Mordell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

P. H. Diananda
P. H. Diananda
Affiliation:
Department of MathematicsUniversity of Malaya in, Singapore
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

In a recent paper (3) Mordell proved the following theorem.

Theorem 1. Let xn + i = xi ≥ 0 for all i and x1 + … + xn = 1. Then

Type
Research Notes
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 57 , Issue 3 , July 1961 , pp. 682 - 685
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1961

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

(1)Birkhoff, G. and MacLane, S. A.survey of modern algebra, revised ed. (New York, 1953).Google Scholar
(2)Diananda, P. H., On a conjecture of L. J. Mordell regarding an inequality involving quadratic forms. J. Lond. Math. Soc. (in the Press).Google Scholar
(3)Mordell, L. J.On the inequality and some others. Abh. Math. Sem. Univ. Hamburg, 22 (1958), 229–41.Google Scholar