An essential, inexhaustible reference
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This richly detailed book, the first in an English-language trilogy on the subject, explores dissections: cutting geometric figures into pieces and reassembling them. The art lies in using as few pieces as possible, often leading to ingenious constructions.
The book brings together every trick from the history of mathematics and all the ingenuity of today's geometric-puzzle creators, together with a great variety of illustrations, a wealth of anecdotes and short biographies of all the players in this theatre of shapes. Across twenty-three chapters, plus one devoted to solutions, the book covers every kind of dissection, from the classics to "staircase" dissections and those with curved edges. It also presents several methods for constructing a "good" dissection, many of them based on tilings of the plane. É.B.
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