A scrap-book of elementary mathematics; notes, recreations, essays (1908)
White, William Frank, 1871- · Chicago, The Open Court Pub. Co · leaf 127
DIVISION OF PLANE INTO REGULAR POLY- GONS. The theorem seems to have been pleasing to the ancients, as it is to high-school pupils to-day, that a plane surface can be divided into equilateral triangles, squares, or regular hexagons, and that these are the only regular polygons into which the… … Fig. i6. Fig- 15- six equilateral triangles, the division of the surface into triangles and hexagons gives the same arrange- ment (Fig. 16). The hexagonal form of the bee's cell has long at- tracted attention and admiration. The little worker could not have chosen a better form if he had had the…
Mathematical recreations
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