19 Apr
2006
19 Apr
'06
12:03 a.m.
Quoting Michael Kleber <michael.kleber@gmail.com>:
Surely everyone other than me already knows this, but when my 7-year-old son asked me this over dinner tonight, I couldn't give him a satisfying answer. Is it possible to dissect a square into 3 congruent pieces in any way other than the trivial one?
It is unlikely that a child of that age would be teasing his father with the Tarski-Banach paradox, or whatever it is called. - hvm ------------------------------------------------- www.correo.unam.mx UNAMonos Comunicándonos