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Hilbert’s third problem: decomposing polyhedra

verfasst von : Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler

Erschienen in: Proofs from THE BOOK

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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In his legendary address to the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900 David Hilbert asked — as the third of his twenty-three problems — to specify

“two tetrahedra of equal bases and equal altitudes which can in no way be split into congruent tetrahedra, and which cannot be combined with congruent tetrahedra to form two polyhedra which themselves could be split up into congruent tetrahedra.”

Metadaten
Titel
Hilbert’s third problem: decomposing polyhedra
verfasst von
Martin Aigner
Günter M. Ziegler
Copyright-Jahr
2004
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05412-3_8

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