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Dividing squares into triangles

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If you have a question about this talk, please contact Valentin Hübner .

I will talk about Monsky’s theorem, which says that a square cannot be divided into an odd number of triangles of equal area. The proof involves a weird (but fun) application of a non-archimedean distance function on the rational numbers; I’ll spend some portion of the talk explaining what non-archimedean distance functions are and why they are as important (from some points of view) as the usual notion of distance between two numbers.

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