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The paper treats the following question: How does a piece of sugar, considered as a rectangular prism, split if one tries to break it by gripping it at two opposite corners? Zermelo first analyzes the physical conditions and then provides a mathematically simple solution together with generalizations resulting from replacing the cross-section rectangle by ellipses and parallelograms.
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Ebbinghaus, HD. (2013). Introductory note to 1933a. In: Ebbinghaus, HD., Kanamori, A. (eds) Ernst Zermelo - Collected Works/Gesammelte Werke II. Schriften der Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70856-8_15
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