The straight side of sliced circles. (Mathematics)

From: Science News | Date: July 8, 1989 | Copyright information

The straight side of sliced circles

Cut a circle out of a sheet of paper. Then cut the circle into pieces so that the pieces, when fitted back together, form a square having the same area as the original circle. Such a task seems impossible. How do you get rid of the curves? But a Hungarian mathematician has now proved that it is theoretically possible to cut a circle into a finite number of pieces and rearrange them into a square. Miklos Laczkovich of Eotvos Lorand U...

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