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The parameters most commonly appearing in triangle inequalities are: the side lengths a, b, and c;; the semiperimeter s = (a + b + c) / 2 (half the perimeter p);; the angle measures A, B, and C of the angles of the vertices opposite the respective sides a, b, and c (with the vertices denoted with the same symbols as their angle measures);
Azuma's inequality; Bennett's inequality, an upper bound on the probability that the sum of independent random variables deviates from its expected value by more than any specified amount
In spherical geometry, the shortest distance between two points is an arc of a great circle, but the triangle inequality holds provided the restriction is made that the distance between two points on a sphere is the length of a minor spherical line segment (that is, one with central angle in [0, π]) with those endpoints.
Erdős–Mordell inequality. Let be an arbitrary point P inside a given triangle , and let , , and be the perpendiculars from to the sides of the triangles. (If the triangle is obtuse, one of these perpendiculars may cross through a different side of the triangle and end on the line supporting one of the sides.)
For four points in order around a circle, Ptolemy's inequality becomes an equality, known as Ptolemy's theorem: ¯ ¯ + ¯ ¯ = ¯ ¯. In the inversion-based proof of Ptolemy's inequality, transforming four co-circular points by an inversion centered at one of them causes the other three to become collinear, so the triangle equality for these three points (from which Ptolemy's inequality may ...
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. G. Geometric inequalities (1 C, 30 P) P. ... Littlewood's 4/3 inequality; Log sum inequality;
Similarly, 4 √ x 1 x 2 is the perimeter of a square with the same area, x 1 x 2, as that rectangle. Thus for n = 2 the AM–GM inequality states that a rectangle of a given area has the smallest perimeter if that rectangle is also a square. The full inequality is an extension of this idea to n dimensions.
The reverse inequality follows from the same argument as the standard Minkowski, but uses that Holder's inequality is also reversed in this range. Using the Reverse Minkowski, we may prove that power means with p ≤ 1 , {\textstyle p\leq 1,} such as the harmonic mean and the geometric mean are concave.