Finite Dissection of Polyhedra/Historical Note/Mistake
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Source Work
2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.):
- dissection proof
Mistake
- ... the German mathematician Max Dehn showed in $1901$ that there are two polyhedra of the same volume for which it is impossible to reconstruct one from the other by dissection.
Correction
In fact it was $1900$ in which he performed this feat.
This mistake is repeated in entry equidecomposable.
The date of this result is not reported in the second edition.
Sources
- 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