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

DOI10.1007/S00283-014-9481-1MaRDI QIDQ483345zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

zbMATH Keywords

Conway's proofdeus ex machinaMorley's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)

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