Steinitz theorem
Steinitz theorem
[′shtī‚nits ‚thir·əm] (mathematics)
The theorem that an interior point of the convex span of a set in n-dimensional Euclidean space is also an interior point of the convex span of a subset of that set which has at most two n points.
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