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In his legendary address to the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900 David Hilbert asked — as the third of his twenty-three problems — to specify “two tetrahedra of equal bases and equal altitudes which can in no way be split into congruent tetrahedra, and which cannot be combined with congruent tetrahedra to form two polyhedra which themselves could be split up into congruent tetrahedra.”
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Aigner, M., Ziegler, G.M. (2014). Hilbert’s third problem: decomposing polyhedra. In: Proofs from THE BOOK. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44205-0_10
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