not sure if this is a valid proof, but I'll give it a shot :-)
without loss of generality we can set a<=b<=c and thus we can set equations as such
a+b+c=Pi
0<a<Pi/2
a<=b<Pi/2
thus we can restrict this problem to what a and b are.
now there are two possible restrictions on a and b
a is in the interval (0,Pi/4] and b is in the interval [(Pi/2)-a,Pi/2)
or
a is in the interval (Pi/4,Pi/2) and b is in the interval (a,Pi/2)
now lets take a look at the minimum for the sum of the sines of a,b,c. In either case the sum is minimized when a,b,c are minimized because sine function increases from 0 to 1 on interval [0,Pi/2].
thus in case one we can make a arbitrarily small thus we have minimum when a=0 b=Pi/2 c=Pi/2 and the sum would be 2. but this minimum can not be reached because we can not have two right angles in a triangle. Thus the sum is always greater than 2 in the first case
in the second case the minimum is reached when a=Pi/4 b=Pi/4 c=Pi/2 and thus the sum is 1+Sqrt(2) which is greater than 2 thus the sum is always greater than 2 in the second case as well.
Since the sum is always greater than 2 in either case then we can state that Sin(a)+Sin(b)+Sin(c)>2 for all acute triangles
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Posted by Daniel
on 2007-10-14 05:32:49 |