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Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Generalized Pythagorean Theorem--a visual poem?
While thinking about my December 13 posting featuring work by Richard Kostelanetz -- visual poetry with numbers -- I was browsing a fascinating book by Ivan Moscovich, The Puzzle Universe: A History of Mathematics in 315 Puzzles (Firefly Books, 2015) and came to the following diagram. I offer it as a visual poem.
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This is the ultimate Coffee Table book for math puzzle geeks, Beautifully done.
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