Solution

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Compute twice the four opposite face areas and their weighted vertex average:
These positive weights make an interior convex combination. To verify the incenter of a tetrahedron, put . The altitude from to its opposite face is . Signed distance to that face is affine and vanishes at the other three vertices, so has distance . The same argument works for every face. Hence
The sphere of radius centered at is tangent to all four faces. Equality of the four distances conversely forces these face-area weights, proving uniqueness.

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