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Showing posts with label Ivan Moscovich. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ivan Moscovich. Show all posts
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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history,
Ivan Moscovich,
puzzle,
Pythagorean Theorem,
visual poetry
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