The Pythagorean Forest
Josef Weese, Joshua Martinez, Christian Caraveo, and Jesse Atkinson

Proceedings of Bridges 2019: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Education, Culture
Pages 449–452
Short Papers

Abstract

We show how a network of ideas—a forest of trees—that constitute a 3-D tree graph of a proof in geometry both interact and accumulate in number and kind. Our bar graphs, adjacency matrices, and a new 3-D glass and wood sculpture represent ways to visualize a geometry proof (in our case, the Pythagorean Theorem) and its interacting premises.

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