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Proofs Without Words

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The following demonstrate proofs of various identities and theorems using pictures, inspired from this gallery.

Nichomauss' Theorem: the sum of the first cubes can be written as the square of the sum of the first integers, a statement that can be written as .

Here, we use the same re-arrangement as the first proof on this page (the sum of first odd integers is a square). Here's another re-arrangement to see this:

This also suggests the following alternative proof: