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For questions requesting examples of a certain structure or phenomenon
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Proofs without words
from Steven Strogatz's column:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/take-it-to-the-limit/ (Wayback Machine)
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Canonical geometric examples
I'm interested in a similar concept: examples where a problem in math or physics is accompanied by a geometric figure that illuminates some key relationship in a way that formulas might not. … But I'd love to see other typical examples where people have found a geometric "explanation" extremely simple or crucial to an otherwise opaque problem. …