How Does One Cut a Triangle?
How Does One Cut a Triangle? is a work of art, and rarely, perhaps never, does one find the talents of an artist better suited to his intention than we find in Alexander Soifer and this book. <U+0014>Peter D. Johnson, Jr. This delightful book considers and solves many problems in dividing tria...
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Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York,
2009.
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Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74652-4 |
Table of Contents:
- Forewords
- Preface
- Part I: The Original Book
- Pool Table, Irrational Numbers, and Integral Independence
- How does One Cut a Triangle? I
- Excursions in Algebra
- How Does One Cut a Triangle? II
- Excursion in Trigonometry
- Is There Anything Beyond the Solution?
- Pursuit of the Best Result
- Convex Figures and the Function S(F)
- Faul Erdos: Our Joint Problems
- Convex Figures and Erdos' Function
- Part II: Developments of the Subsequent 20 Years
- An Alternative Proof of the Grand Problem II
- Miklos Lasckovich on Cutting Triangles
- Soifer's $50 Problem and Mitya Karabash
- Conway-Soifer's Cover-Up
- Appendices
- References
- Notation.-Index.