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In 1973 Victor Klee asked how many guards are need to observe all the walls of a museum? If the walls form a regular polygon or even a convex polygon, one guard is sufficient (Fig. 5.1).
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Ben-Ari, M. (2022). How to Guard a Museum. In: Mathematical Surprises. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13566-8_5
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