Proving Pick's Theorem | Infinite Series

2017-03-16

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You could spend hours doing trigonometry to determine the area of a complex shape or you could simply plug in Pick’s Theorem.

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Sources and further references:

David Eppstein’s Math Fun

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/recmath.html

Proofs from the Book by Martin Aigner and Günter M. Ziegler

https://www.amazon.com/Proofs-BOOK-Martin-Aigner/dp/3642008550

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