The complete characterization of tangram pentagons
Metric Geometry
2020-06-18 v1
Abstract
The old Chinese puzzle tangram gives rise to serious mathematical problems when one asks for all tangram figures that satisfy particular geometric properties. All convex tangram figures are known since 1942. They include the only triangular and all six quadrangular tangram figures. The families of all -gonal tangram figures with are either infinite or empty. Here we characterize all pentagonal tangram figures, including non-convex pentagons and pentagons whose vertices are not contained in the same orthogonal lattice.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2006.09698,
title = {The complete characterization of tangram pentagons},
author = {Sarah Sophie Pohl and Christian Richter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.09698},
year = {2020}
}