Objects
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Plane & Fancy T-shirts (approx 100K).
Fashion statements that celebrate dissection puzzles!
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Pentagonal coffee table (approx 120K).
The one mentioned in my (auto)biography.
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Rhombo blocks on my pentagonal coffee table (approx 135K).
More games with my pentagonal coffee table.
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Earthenware plate made by Susan Schechter (approx 65K).
Decorated with the 7-pointed stars from the dust jacket.
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Art Stoner's plexiglas model (approx 45K).
Of the 4-piece dissection of an equilateral triangle to a square.
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Dick Ruth's hinged model (approx 33K).
Of a quadrilateral to two identical parallelograms.
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Tangrams and Dissections - Puzzles, containing Four Tricky Two-Way Puzzles
and Four Tricky Two-Way Star Puzzles.
Robert Fathauer of Tessellations
has produced two commercially-sold puzzle sets.
Rob consulted with me in the selection and presentation of these
dissection puzzles (approx 70K).
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Henry Perigal's monument (approx 58K).
A man and a dissection memorialized.
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Wooden model for the Pythagorean Theorem.
In the collection of the National Museum of American History.
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Hole in a Triangle.
David S. Gunderson,
in the Mathematics department at the University of Manitoba,
displays a lovely model in maple and walnut
of Martin Gardner's variation on the Curry triangles.
See Figure 80 on page 146 of
Mathematics: Magic and Mystery,
by Martin Gardner, Dover Publications, 1956.
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Edo Timmermans' Model.
Edo Timmermans,
who lives in the Netherlands,
crafted a lovely puzzle embodying one of his 8-piece dissections of
a 3-cube, a 4-cube, and a 5-cube to a 6-cube.
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Edo Timmermans' Parallelopipeds.
Edo Timmermans also found an 8-piece translational dissection of
a 3-cube, a 4-cube, and a 5-cube to a 6-cube.
He emphasized the translational property by
dissecting parallelopipeds rather than just cubes.
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Edo Timmermans' Interlocking Cubes.
Edo Timmermans also found an 8-piece dissection of
a 3-cube, a 4-cube, and a 5-cube to a 6-cube
in which two of the pieces cannot be disentangled.
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O'Beirne's Cubes in Foam.
A lovely counterpoint to Edo Timmermans' cube dissections
is the foam model of Thomas H. O'Beirne's 9-piece dissection
of a 3-cube, a 4-cube, and a 5-cube to a 6-cube,
using pieces that are rectangular solids,
as produced by Rob Fathauer.
People from the past
Friends
Cross-References
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