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Sol LeWitt: The Lost Three-Part Variation and Other Math Puzzles

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We thank the anonymous reviewers and our colleague Carol Baldwin for insightful comments and suggestions. The second author’s research is supported by the Simons Foundation Travel Support for Mathematicians grant MP-TSM-00002544.

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    Natasha Rozhkovskaya

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Hathaway, J., Rozhkovskaya, N. Sol LeWitt: The Lost Three-Part Variation and Other Math Puzzles. Math Intelligencer (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-024-10329-2

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