Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 “Dat Pussle”
- 2 Our Geometric Universe
- 3 Fearful Symmetry
- 4 It's Hip to Be a Square
- 5 Triangles and Friends
- 6 All Polygons Created Equal
- 7 First Steps
- 8 Step Right Up!
- 9 Watch Your Step!
- 10 Just Tessellating
- 11 Plain Out-Stripped
- 12 Strips Teased
- 13 Tessellations Completed
- 14 Maltese Crosses
- 15 Curves Ahead
- 16 Stardom
- 17 Farewell, My Lindgren
- 18 The New Breed
- 19 When Polygons Aren't Regular
- 20 On to Solids
- 21 Cubes Rationalized
- 22 Prisms Reformed
- 23 Cheated, Bamboozled, and Hornswoggled
- 24 Solutions to All Our Problems
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index of Dissections
- General Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 “Dat Pussle”
- 2 Our Geometric Universe
- 3 Fearful Symmetry
- 4 It's Hip to Be a Square
- 5 Triangles and Friends
- 6 All Polygons Created Equal
- 7 First Steps
- 8 Step Right Up!
- 9 Watch Your Step!
- 10 Just Tessellating
- 11 Plain Out-Stripped
- 12 Strips Teased
- 13 Tessellations Completed
- 14 Maltese Crosses
- 15 Curves Ahead
- 16 Stardom
- 17 Farewell, My Lindgren
- 18 The New Breed
- 19 When Polygons Aren't Regular
- 20 On to Solids
- 21 Cubes Rationalized
- 22 Prisms Reformed
- 23 Cheated, Bamboozled, and Hornswoggled
- 24 Solutions to All Our Problems
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index of Dissections
- General Index
Summary
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- Chapter
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- DissectionsPlane and Fancy, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997