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fiforpg | 8 months ago

Nice. There's an entire book like this for geometric statements. Every picture is a fact, proofs are supplied by the reader:

https://users.mccme.ru/akopyan/papers/EnGeoFigures.pdf

Caution: proofs of some of the statements in it are difficult.

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JadeNB|8 months ago

I think that is rather different. The traditional meaning of "proofs without words" is that the picture is the proof, or at least, if you believe that a proof can only be in words, that the picture should convey the idea so transparently that anyone with reasonable mathematical skill can routinely translate it into words.

fiforpg|8 months ago

You are correct, after posting I realized the difference. The book is rather "theorems [formulated] without words".

Which is why I added that the proofs are left to the reader :P