2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
E4. How Does One Cut a Triangle?
Author : Alexander Soifer
Published in: The Colorado Mathematical Olympiad and Further Explorations
Publisher: Springer US
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The solution of problem 4.4 showed that not every triangle can be cut into two triangles similar to each other, and on the other hand, every triangle can be cut into six triangles similar to each other. In 1970, still an undergraduate student, I posed and solved the following two much more general problems.