设 $P_{1}, P_{2}, \cdots, P_{n}$ 是平面上任意给定的 $n$ 个点,试求出一点 $A$ ,使得 $\left|A P_{1}\right|^{2}+ \left|A P_{2}\right|^{2}+\cdots+\left|A P_{n}\right|^{2}$ 为最小。
设 $P_{1}, P_{2}, \cdots, P_{n}, A$ 所对应的复数分别为 $z_{1}, z_{2}, \cdots, z_{n}, z$ ,则由复数的几何意义运算可得 $$ \begin{aligned} & \left|A P_{1}\right|^{2}+\left|A P_{2}\right|^{2}+\cdots+\left|A P_{n}\right|^{2} \\ & \quad=\sum_{k=1}^{n}\left|z-z_{k}\right|^{2}=\sum_{k=1}^{n}\left(z-z_{k}\right)\left(\bar{z}-\overline{z_{k}}\right) \\ & \quad=\sum_{k=1}^{n}\left(z \bar{z}-z_{k} \bar{z}-z \overline{z_{k}}+z_{k} \overline{z_{k}}\right) \\ & \quad=\sum_{k=1}^{n} z \bar{z}-\left(\sum_{k=1}^{n} z_{k}\right) \bar{z}-\left(\sum_{k=1}^{n} \overline{z_{k}}\right) z+\sum_{k=1}^{n} z_{k} \overline{z_{k}} \end{aligned} $$ $$ \begin{aligned} & =n\left(z-\frac{1}{n} \sum_{k=1}^{n} z_{k}\right)\left(\bar{z}-\frac{1}{n} \sum_{k=1}^{n} \overline{z_{k}}\right)+\sum_{k=1}^{n} z_{k} \overline{z_{k}}-\frac{1}{n} \sum_{k=1}^{n} z_{k} \sum_{k=1}^{n} \overline{z_{k}} \\ & =n\left|z-\frac{1}{n} \sum_{k=1}^{n} z_{k}\right|^{2}+\sum_{k=1}^{n}\left|z_{k}\right|^{2}-\frac{1}{n} \sum_{k=1}^{n}\left|z_{k}\right|^{2} \end{aligned} $$ 于是,当 $\displaystyle z=\frac{1}{n} \sum_{k=1}^{n} z_{k}$ 时,$\left|A P_{1}\right|^{2}+\left|A P_{2}\right|^{2}+\cdots+\left|A P_{n}\right|^{2}$ 取得最小值 $\displaystyle \sum_{k=1}^{n}\left|z_{k}\right|^{2}- \frac{1}{n} \sum_{k=1}^{n}\left|z_{k}\right|^{2}$ .