Fascinating Dissection
First, print and cut the pieces below. Then, arrange them so that they form a triangle and then rearrange them so that they form a square.
SOLUTION
The solution is shown below.
What is fascinating about these dissections is that one can transform into the other by keeping the pieces attached to each other in a chain and simply
Henry Ernest Dudeney (1857 – 1930) was an English author and mathematician who specialized in logic puzzles and mathematical games. He is known as one of the country's foremost creators of mathematical puzzles.