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

DOI10.1007/S00283-014-9481-1zbMATH Open1309.51008OpenAlexW1966371787MaRDI QIDQ483345FDOQ483345

Authors: O. A. S. 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

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zbMATH Keywords

Conway's proofdeus ex machinaMorley's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)

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