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Product ID: Geometers Corner
Supplementary Print
High School

Enumeration Via Partitions

Author: Orlando B. Alonsa & Joseph Malkevitch


In 1995, Branko Grünbaum ([2]) published a fascinating new classification for convex quadrilaterals. Grünbaum starts by observing that there are seven patterns for the side lengths of a convex quadrilateral. Although he did not actually talk about partitions, one way to think of what he did is to look at the partitions of 4.

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Consortium 98
5 pages

Mathematics Topics:

Geometry, Algebra

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