1st Edition

Piano-Hinged Dissections Time to Fold!

By Greg N. Frederickson Copyright 2006
320 Pages
by A K Peters/CRC Press

320 Pages
by A K Peters/CRC Press

320 Pages
by A K Peters/CRC Press

A dissection involves cutting a polygon into pieces in such a way that those pieces form another polygon; for a hinged dissection, the pieces must be attached by hinges. A piano hinge is "a long narrow hinge with a pin running the entire length of its joint." So, unlike regular hinged dissections, which swing or twist (around single point of hinge), piano-hinged dissections fold along an edge.... Read more
1. Time to Fold 2. What’s the Flap? 3. Swingers and Twisters 4. Willing Converts 5. Quad Squad 6. Thinking Inside the Box 7. Hole in One 8. Square Tactics 9. Triangle, Triangle Again 10. Hexagons, Triangles, Squares—Oh My! 11. Out of the Loop 12. From FIFI to ZULU, and Back! 13. Intensive Square 14. Staying Rational 15. Double-Crossed!! 16. Stargazing 17. Manifold Blessings 18. A Mixed Bag 19. Pot Luck 20. Puzzles Unfolded

Biography

Frederickson, Greg N.