Finite Dissection of Polyhedra/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Finite Dissection of Polyhedra
The question of the Finite Dissection of Polyhedra was the $3$rd of the Hilbert 23.
It was settled in $1900$ by Max Wilhelm Dehn, who provided a counterexample: two polyhedra of the same volume for which there exists no dissection of one into the other.
This was the first of the Hilbert 23 to be solved.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): equidecomposable
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): dissection proof
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): equidecomposable