{"id":48,"date":"2006-11-03T15:24:42","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T19:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherrycoated.com\/wordpress\/?p=48"},"modified":"2006-11-03T15:24:42","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T19:24:42","slug":"visual-proofsexplanations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/interesting-web-sites\/visual-proofsexplanations","title":{"rendered":"Visual proofs\/explanations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/cwdata\/sp44.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"20\"> Browsing <a href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\">reddit <\/a>this morning, I came across a link that included some visual proofs, displayed below.  They are very clear explanations of some mathematical identities. I started looking around for some others. Here&#8217;s what I found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/featurecolumn\/archive\/visual1.html\">Visual Explanations in Mathematics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Pythagorean_theorem\">Wikipedia Commons entries for the Pythagorean Theorem<\/a><\/li>\n<li> the two interesting looking books by Robert Nelson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FProofs-without-Words-Exercises-Classroom%2Fdp%2F0883857006&amp;tag=webliminalbooksi&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Proofs Without Words<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=webliminalbooksi&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FProofs-Without-Words-Exercises-Classroom%2Fdp%2F0883857219&amp;tag=webliminalbooksi&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Proofs Without Words II<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=webliminalbooksi&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMath-Made-Visual-Understanding-Mathematics%2Fdp%2F0883857464&amp;tag=webliminalbooksi&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Math Made Visual<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=webliminalbooksi&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>by Roger Nelson and Claudia Alsina<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FPhilosophy-Mathematics-James-Rob-Brown%2Fdp%2F0415122759%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fqid%3D1162560497%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks&amp;tag=webliminalbooksi&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Philosophy of Mathematics<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=webliminalbooksi&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/> by Robert James Brown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.twoday.net\/mahalanobis\/images\/neatproofs.gif\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nAnd today&#8217;s special is ..<br \/>\n You have an active mind and a keen imagination. -fc<br \/>\n2960<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Browsing reddit this morning, I came across a link that included some visual proofs, displayed below. They are very clear explanations of some mathematical identities. I started looking around for some others. 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