A Zen Master, a Zen Monk, a Zen Mathematician

Nexus Network Journal - 2018
Sandra Lucente1, Antonio Macchia1
1Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy

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Inspired by the Ryōan-ji garden in Kyoto, we formulate and solve some problems on the arrangement of two sets of points in the plane. We imagine a Zen Master and a Zen Monk that want to create a dry garden: they will discover the importance of convexity and collinearity, as well as incidence and betweenness. We present these problems with a didactic exposition and we suggest some generalizations which require other mathematical tools.

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