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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Soifer, Alexander. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: 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.