In geometry, a dissection problem is the problem of partitioning a geometric figure (such as a polytope or ball) into smaller pieces that may be rearranged...
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A dissection puzzle, also called a transformation puzzle or Richter puzzle, is a tiling puzzle where a set of pieces can be assembled in different ways...
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animal or plant to study its anatomical structure. Dissection may also refer to: dissection problem in geometry - Partitioning a geometric figure into...
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Square trisection (category Geometric dissection)
type of dissection problem which consists of cutting a square into pieces that can be rearranged to form three identical squares. The dissection of a square...
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Aortic dissection (AD) occurs when an injury to the innermost layer of the aorta allows blood to flow between the layers of the aortic wall, forcing the...
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blooming? Danzer's problem and Conway's dead fly problem – do Danzer sets of bounded density or bounded separation exist? Dissection into orthoschemes...
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Vertebral artery dissection (VAD) is a flap-like tear of the inner lining of the vertebral artery, which is located in the neck and supplies blood to the...
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Dissection (from Latin dissecare "to cut to pieces"; also called anatomization) is the dismembering of the body of a deceased animal or plant to study...
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Problem solving is the process of achieving a goal by overcoming obstacles, a frequent part of most activities. Problems in need of solutions range from...
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Squaring the square (redirect from Perfect square dissection)
solvable problem, there is no perfect cubed cube and, more generally, no dissection of a rectangular cuboid C into a finite number of unequal cubes. To prove...
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Chess Review between the years 1937 and 1957, under the name of "dissection problems." The name polyomino was invented by Solomon W. Golomb in 1953, and...
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John Ritter (category Deaths from aortic dissection)
deaths due to aortic dissection by identifying genetic mutations that predispose individuals to thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections. 1983: Star on the...
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Packing problems are a class of optimization problems in mathematics that involve attempting to pack objects together into containers. The goal is to...
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Tarski's circle-squaring problem is the challenge, posed by Alfred Tarski in 1925, to take a disc in the plane, cut it into finitely many pieces, and...
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In geometry, a hinged dissection, also known as a swing-hinged dissection or Dudeney dissection, is a kind of geometric dissection in which all of the pieces...
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Puzzle (category Problem solving)
A puzzle is a game, problem, or toy that tests a person's ingenuity or knowledge. In a puzzle, the solver is expected to put pieces together (or take...
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A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle created by the composer using chess pieces on a chessboard, which presents the solver with...
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face, and forming the convex hull of the four vertices on this path. A dissection of a shape S {\displaystyle S} (which may be any closed set in Euclidean...
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third of Hilbert's list of mathematical problems, presented in 1900, was the first to be solved. The problem is related to the following question: given...
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Henry Ernest Dudeney". www.gutenberg.org. Retrieved 2022-03-26. "Dissection Problems in PFCS/FCR: Summary of Results in Date Order". www.mayhematics.com...
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Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem (category Geometric dissection)
require the axiom of choice, even though some other dissection problems (e.g. Tarski's circle-squaring problem) do need it. In this case, the decomposition and...
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video games that emphasize puzzle solving. The types of puzzles can test problem-solving skills, including logic, pattern recognition, sequence solving...
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Logic puzzle (redirect from Logic problem)
Wonderland. In his book The Game of Logic he introduced a game to solve problems such as confirming the conclusion "Some greyhounds are not fat" from the...
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Mechanical puzzle (redirect from Solid dissection puzzle)
With this in mind, they are often used as an intelligence test or in problem solving training. The oldest known mechanical puzzle comes from Greece...
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Situation Logic Dissection Induction Logic grid Self-reference Mechanical Combination Construction Disentanglement Lock Go problems Folding Stick Tiling...
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reconceptualized: Gleaning from pharmacological dissection: Early experience with imipramine and anxiety" Modern problems of pharmacopsychiatry, 1987 v t e...
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to contain the original Hadwiger's conjecture on dissection into orthoschemes Hadwiger–Nelson problem on the chromatic number of unit distance graphs in...
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Ritter died. The cause of death was later determined to be an aortic dissection stemming from a previously undiagnosed congenital heart defect. Yasbeck...
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Monsky's theorem (category Geometric dissection)
square with vertices at (0, 0), (0, 1), (1, 0) and (1, 1). If there is a dissection into n triangles of equal area, then the area of each triangle is 1/n...
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used an unconscious rabbit because of "the protracted cruelty of the dissection", which caused him to miss that the dorsal roots were also responsible...
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