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In antiquity, patterns of points played an important role in the use of numbers and cosmological conceptions. The Pythagoreans used to represent some integers as a set of points arranged in polygonal or polyhedral forms. These integers, presented as spatial arrays, are known as figurate numbers. In this section we will study some of these numbers.
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Manfrino, R.B., Ortega, J.A.G., Delgado, R.V. (2015). Progressions and Finite Sums. In: Topics in Algebra and Analysis. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11946-5_2
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