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On Dividing a Rectangle

History and Overview 2018-08-21 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

This paper deals with the history of the following problem: "Can an arbitrary rectangle be dissected into 3 non-rectangular congruent regions?" We present a new elementary proof that the answer is indeed no.

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@article{arxiv.1808.06481,
  title  = {On Dividing a Rectangle},
  author = {Robert Dumitru and Quinn Perian and Alexander Nealey and Mohammed Mannan and Eddie Beck and Nick Castro and David Gay and Dipen Mehta and Anish Pandya and Ejay Cho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.06481},
  year   = {2018}
}