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The Largest Unit Ball in Any Euclidean Space

by Jeffrey Nunemacher (Oberlin College)

This article originally appeared in:
Mathematics Magazine
June, 1986

Subject classification(s): Calculus | Several Variable Calculus
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Questions about the size of a unit ball in n-space are addressed in a manner that makes the arguments accessible to a multivariate calculus class.

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