This image illustrating the Pythagorean Theorem was created by the artist Mel Bochner. It appears on the cover of the January 2009 issue of the College Mathematics Journal.
What is wrong with it?
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Posted by: Dave Richeson | January 28, 2009
What is wrong with this picture?
Posted in Math, Puzzle | Tags: College Mathematics Journal, Pythagorean Theorem
Very nice. Very common mistake, too – though I hadn’t before seen it in this context.
By: Bert on January 29, 2009
at 7:39 pm
Very nice indeed—it was the folks at 360 who noticed it. The journal was sitting on my coffee table for a week and I never gave the cover a second look.
By: Dave Richeson on January 30, 2009
at 12:14 am