Pythagoras on the rocks. A proof with bricks
In this short paper a practical and simple proof of the Pythagorean theorem is proposed. It uses colourful interlocking plastic bricks with two shapes: a cube that measures two centimeters on each side and a right prism where the base is a right-angled isosceles triangle and the two equal rectangula...
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Main Authors: | Michele Cagol (Author), Alessandro Efrem Colombi (Author) |
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Firenze University Press,
2016-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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