Saturday, 17 December 2011

Algebra as geometry


I love this simple, obvious geometric proof that (x + y)^2 = x^2 + 2xy + y^2. I wish someone has shown this to me when they first taught me algebra; it would have made things a lot clearer to me.

[Image from: http://www.mathaware.org/mam/00/master/essays/B3D/2/binomial.html]

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