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Napoleon Bonaparte was a dictator and emperor of France during their height and power. He took over almost all of Europe and was a tactical leader. He also was interested in mathematics. His discovery, Napoleon's Theorem, is a very interesting tesselation. It is basically this. If you take any triangle ABC and draw equilateral triangles on the sides facing outwards then the incenters of the 3 equilateral triangles connected will form a equilateral triangle. Below is a diagram of this theorem. Later M.C. Escher discovered other things shown below and the theorem expanded to be a fairly complex tesselation. |
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