Mahalanobis - am 2006-10-13 00:37 - Rubrik: mathstat
John B. Chilton (guest) meinte am 14. Oct, 16:42:
Those are suitable for framing.
mike ward (guest) meinte am 17. Oct, 04:28:
yes, but...
pictures are a great way to to get develop intuition about problems (think venn diagrams and probability), but they are not proofs!
Alina (guest) antwortete am 17. Oct, 20:24:
try reading The Infinite in the Finite, by Alistair Macintosh Wilson. it is full of these typrs of proofs... which only prove that nature is consistent :) my view
Conrad (guest) meinte am 17. Oct, 22:33:
seen this before?
I have seen both of these diagrams in relation to Platonic/Pythagorean mathematical statements, albeit phrased in now-opaque Greek geometric terms. Don't remember exact sources, though; perhaps Robert Brumbaugh would have the answers.
Alex M Thomas (guest) meinte am 18. Oct, 09:33:
Visuals
Great proofs!Thinking out of boxed mathematics! :)
Jane (guest) antwortete am 19. Oct, 15:31:
There is a book full of things like this, including several pictorial proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem. It is called "Proofs without Words" and I recommend it.
Peter de Blanc (guest) meinte am 18. Dec, 06:08:
Marcello Herreshoff, Nick Hay, and I once had to divide a square pizza between the three of us. We didn't think we could tell visually how much a third is, so we cut it as in diagram 2.
Ken (guest) antwortete am 24. Mar, 16:22:
And long after the sun burned out, you're still busy cutting.
