Is John Conway's proof of Morley's theorem the simplest and free of a deus ex machina?

DOI10.1007/s00283-014-9481-1zbMath1309.51008OpenAlexW1966371787MaRDI QIDQ483345

Omid Ali Shahny Karamzadeh

Publication date: 17 December 2014

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-014-9481-1

zbMATH Keywords

Conway's proofdeus ex machinaMorley's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)

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