Timeline for An example of a beautiful proof that would be accessible at the high school level?
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| Aug 30, 2018 at 23:58 | comment | added | paul Monsky | @LSpice Google "Monsky's Theorem" and you'll find many write-ups. | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 18:39 | comment | added | LSpice | @paulMonsky, do you know a reference where this is written up? | |
| Sep 9, 2011 at 4:53 | comment | added | paul Monsky | There's a bizarre application of Sperner's lemma that's hard for high-school students (but I did give a talk to a group of them about it): one can't dissect a square into an odd number of non-overlapping triangles, all of the same area. | |
| Sep 9, 2011 at 3:43 | history | answered | Thierry Zell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |