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Dudeney's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
This Demonstration shows Dudeney's proof of the Pythagorean theorem.
Contributed by:
Izidor Hafner
Additional code by
Alvaro José Ibarra Rivas
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Reference
[1] E. Maor,
The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History
, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007, p. 199.
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Pythagorean Theorem
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Three Proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem
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An Intuitive Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
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Euclid's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
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Da Vinci's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
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Einstein's Most Excellent Proof
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Hinged and Translational Dissection of Two Squares to One
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Izidor Hafner
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Dudeney's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
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http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/DudeneysProofOfThePythagoreanTheorem/
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Published: January 3, 2013
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