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Sunday, August 15, 2021

Simple Similarity

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 1:05 pm

The following image (click to enlarge) is now the target of
a link on the phrase "similarly divided" in Friday's post
"The Divided Square."

Related material —

A version of the above Schroeder pages, dumbed down for
readers of The New Yorker

Note  that the proof under discussion has nothing to do with 
the New Yorker 's rubric "Annals of Technology."

Note also the statement by Strogatz that 

"Einstein’s proof reveals why the Pythagorean theorem
applies only to right triangles: they’re the only kind
made up of smaller copies of themselves." 

Exercise:  Discuss the truth or falsity of the Strogatz statement
after reviewing the webpage Triangles Are Square.

For approaches to geometry that are more advanced, see
this  journal on the above New Yorker  date — Nov. 19, 2015 —

Highlights of the Dirac-Mathieu Connection.

 
 

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